gnome-session undefined symbol

viewlessguru · 05-04-2004, 04:17 PM

Hi

I am using Slackware 9.1 and till now i was working in bash. But yesterday i tried to install Gnome 2.4 (which comes with slack 9.1).

Now its giving me error
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SESSION_MANAGER=local/darkstar:/tmp/.ICE-unix/12449
gnome-session: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_add_private

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and then the xwindows dies

any helps or hints on this will be appreciated

thanks
guru

ringwraith · 05-04-2004, 06:40 PM

Guru, did you install the libs needed by gnome such as gtk?

viewlessguru · 05-04-2004, 07:55 PM

yes i did
is you talking about this package, i installed it again

gtk+2-2.2.4-i486-1.tgz

still no luck

FAS · 06-01-2004, 03:02 AM

I've got the same problem. Nobody has a solution?

coldAndUgly · 06-01-2004, 03:49 AM

Hi, if they're not already installed you need to install the glib libraries from the l/ directory of the slackware cdrom.
glib-1.2.10-i386-2.tgz and glib2-2.2.3-i486-1.tgz (Slack 9.1).
The glib2 package contains the gobject library where the g_type_class_add_private function is defined.

viewlessguru · 06-02-2004, 01:19 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by coldAndUgly
hi cold,
i just tried to reinstall the glibs you told. i am getting the same error again. anything else you can suggest. i dont want to go for KDE

thanks for replying
guru
Hi, if they're not already installed you need to install the glib libraries from the l/ directory of the slackware cdrom.
glib-1.2.10-i386-2.tgz and glib2-2.2.3-i486-1.tgz (Slack 9.1).
The glib2 package contains the gobject library where the g_type_class_add_private function is defined.

coldAndUgly · 06-02-2004, 02:47 AM

Alright, if you're sure you've got the gtk and glib packages installed then maybe pango is the causing the problem.
Try,

Code:

ls /usr/lib/*pango*

if you don't see any output form this command then you need to install the pango package, pango-1.2.5-i486-1.tgz, which is also in the l/
directory of the first slackware CD.

viewlessguru · 06-02-2004, 03:11 AM

i have pango libs installed ...

coldAndUgly · 06-02-2004, 03:19 AM

Ok, where is gnome installed? Is it in /opt/gnome or somewhere else? Possibly the linker isn't finding the libraries.

keefaz · 06-02-2004, 03:31 AM

Maybe your libgtk-x11-2.0 is too recent for your Gnome installation so you have to upgrade Gnome as well (gnome 2.6)

viewlessguru · 06-02-2004, 03:58 AM

its in /usr/local/gnome

where i can fix the link problem ?

coldAndUgly · 06-02-2004, 04:14 AM

So is there a subdirectory in the gnome directory called /lib where all the shared libraries are stored?
If so you may need to add that directory to the /etc/ld.so.conf file so the linker can find them.

Code:

 cat /etc/ld.so.conf
/usr/local/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib
/usr/lib

That is what the file looks like on my system, you would have to add the line,

Code:

/usr/local/gnome/lib

if that's where the gnome libraries are installed, then run,

Code:

/sbin/ldconfig

viewlessguru · 06-02-2004, 03:45 PM

i checked, there is no /lib in gnome dir.

all the required libs are in /usr/lib .. also pango

coldAndUgly · 06-02-2004, 04:31 PM

Hi. Ok if you've installed all the packages form the slackware cdrom then the versions of the libraries shouldn't be causing any problems.
It still looks as if you're either missing a library somewhere, or the linker can't find it.
Could you please post the output of:

Code:

grep -ir g_type_class_add_private /usr/lib

coldAndUgly · 06-02-2004, 06:23 PM

After looking into this further I believe keefaz was on the right track.

I assumed you had just installed gtk2 from the package on the first slackware 9.1 cd ( gtk+2-2.2.4-i486-1.tgz ).
Please also post the output from,

Code:

ls -l /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

so we can see what version of libgtk this symlink actually points to, and

Code:

ls /usr/lib/*gtk*

so we can see all the gtk libs in /usr/lib, just to make sure you don't have multiple versions of libgtk+-2.x installed.
Thanks.