Broke my Gnome, Need Help

[Scott <harview montana com>]

I don't know if this is the proper list for this. If not, please
direct me elsewhere.

I am running Mandrake 9.1. The other day, like a knucklehead, I tried
compiling some program which required upgrades to a seemingly endless
list of libraries. glib-2.0 seemed to be the key missing one, as none
of the required atk, pango and gtk+-2.4.9 would compile until glib-2.0
was present. Somehow during the process I was instructed to remove
old glib libraries from /lib and re-run ldconfig; also, to add a
PKG_CONFIG_PATH to /etc/profiles. Well, the other libraries now
compiled just fine. However, all gnomish programs are now completely
broken! I clumsily re-installed from the Mandrake disks every conceivable
library looking like it even wanted to *start* with a g. Did I say I
was pretty frustrated by now? I tracked down all of the symlinks from
an ldd of gdm; all existed. But gdm isn't displaying any images.
Entering gnome causes a whole slew of error messages about image
display. Ditto running any gnome game. 

Here are the errors I get from a couple of programs:

[0 ~]$ gnome-stones 

** (gnome-stones:20973): CRITICAL **: file view.c: line 156 (view_new): assertion `curtain_image' failed

(gnome-stones:20973): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file ../../gtk/gtkcontainer.c: line 947 (gtk_container_add): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(gnome-stones:20973): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file ../../gdk/gdkpixbuf-render.c: line 297 (gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask_for_colormap): assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(gnome-stones:20973): Gdk-CRITICAL **: file ../../gdk/gdkpixbuf-render.c: line 297 (gdk_pixbuf_render_pixmap_and_mask_for_colormap): assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(gnome-stones:20973): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1337 (g_object_unref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(gnome-stones:20973): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file ../../gtk/gtkwidget.c: line 2214 (gtk_widget_draw): assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

** (gnome-stones:20973): CRITICAL **: file view.c: line 428 (view_display_image): assertion `view' failed

** (gnome-stones:20973): WARNING **: Error while loading image frame.png: file not found!
 
[...etc...]

** (gnome-stones:20973): CRITICAL **: file view.c: line 428 (view_display_image): assertion `view' failed

** (gnome-stones:20973): CRITICAL **: file view.c: line 392 (view_set_curtain_mode): assertion `view' failed
Segmentation fault

[0 ~]$ gkrellm -w
This system does not support ACPI.
  Cannot load file image: /usr/share/gkrellm2/themes/Cobalt/frame_top.png

(gkrellm:21003): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported
  Cannot load xpm: /usr/share/gkrellm2/themes/Cobalt/frame_top.png
  Cannot load file image: /usr/share/gkrellm2/themes/Cobalt/frame_bottom.png

[... etc ...]

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Hoping that someone can tell me what I need to do to restore my system
to a working state! Let me know if I can give you some more
finely-tuned diagnostics.

Fortunately, must-have programs like the Gimp were not affected, but
my children are not happy about all of the missing games, and having
to use fluxbox.

TIA,
Scott Swanson

PS: I am not sure if my attempted subscription succeeded or not, so if
you would please cc any replies to me directly....?