Gnome Pooched after glib / gtk upgrade....

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On 03/23/03 04:57, James McDonald wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> I just compiled and installed the following libs and there 
>> dependencies on rh8.0
>>
>> gtk+-2.2.1
>> glib-2.2.1
>>
>> I needed them to compile dia 0.91 (great drawing program that now has 
>> cisco shapes woo hoo)
>>
>> I used ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc for all libs.
>>
>> Now I get as a standard muppet user....
>>
>> (gnome-background-properties:24030): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot 
>> create instance of abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'
>>
>> As root I can launch the gnome-*-* applets without the complaint and 
>> no segfault...
>
>
> did you remove gtk/glib-1.2.x when you installed the 2.2.1 versions?  
> i suspect that your gnome install might need the older versions.
>
No I left the old libs where they are but I presume that the gtk-2.0 
libs from the old version where replaced to by the new install.