Hey,

I had a wonderful machine where everything was working lovely, then I tried to see if I could install some programs. They wouldn't install becuase of things that were missing. One thing led to another, and I now have a machine where firefox and thunderbird won't run, or re-install for that matter.

I am getting errors of this ilk:

thunderbird-bin: relocation error /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: underfined symbol: g_bsearch_array_new

I've been messing around on the web, and I've been let to believe that either gtk2 or firefox-gtk2 is messed up. But I don't know what that is, and I don't really know what the commands 'nm' or 'objdump' are telling me about my system...

A little help?

As far as I know, gtk2 is the program that makes your GUI, be it Gnome or KDE, possible.

See http://www.gtk.org

That's really all I can tell you. I've never experienced that sort of problem in all my 2 weeks of using linux >.<

Ah... I see, graphics stuff

Well, here's an update. I've had a poke around on another machine (that still works). I was messing around in /usr/lib.

if I run 'ls -l' command I get the following about the libgobject* libraries:

[18]% ls -l libgobject*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 287854 Sep 8 2003 libgobject-2.0.a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25 Jul 19 12:47 libgobject-2.0.so -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25 Jul 19 12:36 libgobject-2.0.so.0 -> libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 213356 Sep 8 2003 libgobject-2.0.so.0.200.3


Which is exactly the same as the file sizes on my machine... and the dates are pretty much the same too (i.e. nothing changed in October)... so maybe I'm not barking up the right tree?

Bluemoose, what distro are you using? The Gimp Tool Kit (GTK) can be quite fussy when compiled for different distros. If you were installing dependencies for those applications you were installing, the dependencies can over-write the gtk2 package that came with the distro, thereby rendering gtk2 to malfunction.

Try re-intalling gtk2 from your distro CD using kpackage. I have been very successful with that.

Be patient....

Hey,

First, I'm using Enterprise 3. and I use KDE.

Second, I don't seem to have kpackage. Can't find it in the menus, and can't find it from the prompt. ( tried 'which', got nothing) I downloaded kdeadmin (which is supposed to contain kpackage) and started installing it

While running ./configure... I ended at this point

...
checking for libz... -l
checking for libpng... -lpng -lz -l
checking for libjpeg6b... no
checking for libjpeg... -ljpeg
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (>= Qt 3.3 and < 4.0) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation!
For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log.
Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support!


config.log was .... present, but I'm not sure what it contains, and I'm not sure what Qt is anyway!

Really Interesting update that I'm hoping someone can explain to me!

I checked in /usr/local/lib and I found

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 15:09 codecs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 9 15:10 glib-2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 8 15:49 libdha.so.1 -> libdha.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224304 Nov 8 15:32 libdha.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 813 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.so -> libglib-2.0.so.0.800.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.800.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 953779 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.so.0.800.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 829 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.so -> libxine.so.1.13.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.so.1 -> libxine.so.1.13.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 320671 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.so.1.13.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 1 11:05 mplayer
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 12 16:21 netscape
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 15:14 pkgconfig
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 12288 Nov 9 15:00 python2.4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 20 12:09 xine


Here I see some libglib files that were placed there on the 9th (yesterday... which is when I hosed things up). I created a directory for them somewhere else and moved them away. So I end up with this in the directory


drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 8 15:09 codecs
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 9 15:10 glib-2.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 8 15:49 libdha.so.1 -> libdha.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 224304 Nov 8 15:32 libdha.so.1.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 829 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.so -> libxine.so.1.13.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.so.1 -> libxine.so.1.13.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 320671 Oct 20 12:09 libxine.so.1.13.1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 1 11:05 mplayer
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 12 16:21 netscape
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 9 15:14 pkgconfig
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 12288 Nov 9 15:00 python2.4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 20 12:09 xine


Now Thunderbird and Firefox will start again YAY!... although there seems to be an error when it starts up. Although it doesn't seem to stop me from doing stuff as I'm surfing to linuxquestions with firefox as we speak

Here's the error:
GConf Error: Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error: IDLmg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

Does anyone have anythoughts about this? Could this be something to do with my path as there are other libglib files in '/usr/lib'?

whoops... here are the files I removed


-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 813 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.so -> libglib-2.0.so.0.800.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.so.0 -> libglib-2.0.so.0.800.3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 953779 Nov 9 15:14 libglib-2.0.so.0.800.3

I think you need to reinstall glib2 and gtk2. As for kpackage, install kdeadmin from Redhat rpms.