gconf

["E. M. Anikin" <emanikin mindspring com>]

Hello,

Just "upgraded" from Suse 8.2 to 9.3. During the upgrade encountered some gconf -related messages. Had to ignore them to continue with the upgrade. Now a number of applications don't start. After a couple of days of uninstalling, reinstalling and googling, i think i've reached the end of my capabilities to fix this. If you have any suggestions, or where to look for help please tell me.

    *  Exact error messages from any applications.

No error messages. Things like Evolution,  Firefox, Acrobat Reader simply don't start.

    * Exact version of GConf 1 and GConf 2 that you have installed.

gconf-1.0.9-768

gconf2-2.10.0-5

    * Output of ps jaxwww | grep gconf.

12357 12358  6939  6939 ?           -1 S      500   0:00 gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility

    * Output of gconf-sanity-check-1 or gconf-sanity-check-2 if any.

Check 1 returns nothing.

Check 2 returns the following.

/opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/gconf-sanity-check-2: symbol lookup error: /opt/gnome/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_option_context_new



    * What operating system are you using, and what version of it.

Suse 9.3/2.6.11.4-21.7

    * What appears in the user.* syslog (see above for how to turn on user.* syslog).

gconfd tries to start. Then:

gconfd (ema-12360): Failed to load source "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory": Failed: Error opening module `xml': /opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning
Jul 10 19:30:40 papka gconfd (ema-12360): Failed to load source "xml:readwrite:/home/ema/.gconf": Failed: Error opening module `xml': /opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning
Jul 10 19:30:40 papka gconfd (ema-12360): Failed to load source "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults": Failed: Error opening module `xml': /opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning
Jul 10 19:30:40 papka gconfd (ema-12360): Error loading some config sources: Failed: Error opening module `xml': /opt/gnome/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so: undefined symbol: g_assert_warning


Thank you in advance for your time.

eli