Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

[James McDonald]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 11:57:15PM +1100, James McDonald wrote:
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>>Folks,
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>>I just compiled and installed the following libs and there dependencies 
>>on rh8.0
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>>gtk+-2.2.1
>>glib-2.2.1
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>>I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has 
>>cisco shapes woo hoo)
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>>I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc for all libs.
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>>Now I get as a standard muppet user....
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>>(gnome-background-properties:24030): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot 
>>create instance of abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'
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>>As root I can launch the gnome-*-* applets without the complaint and no 
>>segfault...
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>Did you run ldconfig after building the new libraries?  Are then
>libraries in the normal place?
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>yes I ran ldconfig and the libs are in /usr/lib
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