Fedora 7

[James McDonald]

James McDonald wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, James McDonald wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>>> No I'm having a problem with XFCE terminal exiting when I click the
>>> "Terminal" menu option. I have installed XFCE from source and also tried
>>> un and re-installing it from the repository and no joy.
>>>
>>> I think it has something to do with having development versions of the
>>> kernel and glibc etc.
>>>     
>>>       
>> glibc maybe, but the kernel, i doubt.  Have you tried running Terminal 
>> from an xterm to see what the crash errors is?
>>
>>   
>>     
> Here is my error for XFCE4 Terminal
> (terminal:9163): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file: 
> assertion `filename != NULL' failed
>
> (terminal:9163): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 
> `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> Segmentation fault
>
>
> Another interesting one is from pidgin (ne. gaim)
> ***MEMORY-WARNING***: gconftool-2[9234]: GSlice: g_thread_init() must be 
> called before all other GLib functions; memory corruption due to late 
> invocation of g_thread_init() has been detected; this program is likely 
> to crash, leak or unexpectedly abort soon...
>
> I have something seriously wrong with some core libs.... sigh....
>
>   
The Solution Re-install off the 6.93 LIVE CD.
Immediately download and install the fedora-release-7-3 & 
fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1 rpms
yum groupinstall XFCE
now I have a working install of XFCE