Re: GTK and appls

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 14:47 +0100, szanelli wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu Feisty updated every day via apt-get or update-manager.

Then prepare for problems - development branches are released so you can
find problems and report bugs :).

> ===================================================================
> Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: 
> "libqtpixmap.so",
> ===================================================================

Doesn't seem like a GTK problem to me - something is telling GTK to load
"libqtpixmap.so", and GTK can't find it.  So it's probably a problem
with something else or with the installation (I'm not sure where
libqtpixmap.so comes from, so I can't be a whole lot of help in figuring
it out).  Report this as a bug through Ubuntu's bug tracking channels
(perhaps against their xmms packages), and perhaps you can work with
them to get it fixed.

> while running bookmark manager in firefox/swiftfox i get
> 
> ====================================================================
> (Gecko:21456): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_drag_get_data: assertion 
> `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> ====================================================================

When using a released version of GTK, this message is usually a result
of an error or bug in the application.  I could see this being a GTK
problem in a prerelease/development version of GTK, although unlikely.
Again, file a bug against the relevant Ubuntu packages (most likely
firefox/swiftfox), assuming you're running firefox from their packages.

> I suppose GTK is broken, I'ld like to remove and reinstall it, but I 
> don't know what to remove without damaging the whole system.

On Debian:
$ sudo aptitude reinstall libgtk2.0-0

The package name may be different on Ubuntu, but probably not.  That
will re-install the package for it, but likely won't fix anything.  You
really don't want to try to rip out Ubuntu's (or any full-featured
distribution's) GTK install and replace it with a hand-built one, that's
a recipe for making your system very angry.

I'd urge you to file bug reports with Ubuntu as you see these things,
but the problem likely isn't GTK itself (based on the error messages
you've provided).

HTH,
- Michael