xscreensaver and xorg problems

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:24:54PM -0500, Net Llama! took 29 lines to write:
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Collins Richey wrote:
> > > Can you tell me the software versions you were using on FC2 vs. FC3,
> > > i.e. xfree/xorg gcc glibc xscreensaver and perhaps gtk+?
> >
> > I don't have any FC2 boxes any more, sorry.   You can check and see what
> > shipped with FC2 thoguh. FC3 has:
> >
> > xorg-6.8.1
> > gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3
> > glibc-2.3.3-74
> > gtk+-1.2.10-33
> > gtk2-2.4.13-9
> >
> > > When I first encountered this problem, the cure was to compile gtk+
> > > with a particular version of gcc., but then the problem returned even
> > > on that version of gcc/gtk+.
> >
> > That doesn't make any sense seeing as how xscreensaver isn't a gtk app.
>
> Not necessarily. xscreensaver-demo is usually linked to libgtk:
>
> $ ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver-demo | grep -i gtk
>         libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7d06000)

Well, yea, but that's not what is running when his box is locking up.

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