Re: Flaws in recent Gnome updates

["Marc Wilson" <mwilson moonkingdom net>]

I have had problems with both Netscape 4.08 and Netscape 4.51 as well that
were cleared up by backing off the GTK+ library... didn't mention it 'cause it
was beginning to sound like a "b*tch-fest".

So it's my box.  I'm willing to accept that, if someone can give me something
else that WOULD be causing what I see.  I'm concerned because there must be
something different in my box than everyone else's. :)

OTOH, I was never getting the core files sprinkled around in the first place.
:)  I'll probably try building from the SRPMs next.

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Marc Wilson
mwilson@cts.com
mwilson@moonkingdom.net
http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson/


----- Original Message -----
From: Dax Kelson <dkelson@inconnect.com>
To: Marc Wilson <mwilson@moonkingdom.net>
Cc: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 8:17 AM
Subject: Re: Flaws in recent Gnome updates


> Marc Wilson said once upon a time (Mon, 24 May 1999):
>
> > I would like to know if I'm the only one having problems with the recent
> > series of Gnome updates posted to ftp.inconnect.com.
> >
> > In particular, I have had to remove the updated GTK+, the updated glib,
*and*
> > the updated gtop and return to the versions distributed with RH6.
> >
> > I started with gtop... launching that produced ENDLESS errors from a
module
> > named glibtop... gtop would eventually load (took 30 sec or more), but
every
> > update of *it's* window produced a stream of these errors in the term that
> > launched it.  Backing off to the distributed versions of gtop and glib
removed
> > those errors, but left me with several GTK+ assertion errors.
> >
> > Backing off GTK+ to the version distributed with RH6 removed the assertion
> > errors, and not coincidentally also removed the problem I've been having
with
> > gnome-linuxconf locking up and needing to be killed after making changes
in
> > the system configuration.
> >
> > On the other tentacle, related to the gnome-terminal bug I posted about a
few
> > minutes ago, I tried backing off gnome-core and gnome-libs to the
distributed
> > RH6 versions... the gnome-terminal bugs (text overwrite and background
> > transparency) are there no matter what versions of those I use.
>
> They've been downloaded just over 11,000 times.  I've heard of two
> problems.  One person having a problem and traced it too having two window
> mangers trying to run at the same time (a problem he created), and the
> other person thought the updates screwed up Netscape until he found it was
> Netscape's mail and news reader trying to resolve non-existent host names.
>
> Keep in mind that those RPMS are not "official" RedHat RPMs.  When I built
> them, I built them the way I thought RedHat would build them (by forward
> porting any RedHat changes and/or patches).  I personally run those
> updates on 7 machines.  I can run gnome without having core files
> sprinkled around my filesystem now.
>
> Dax Kelson