SERIOUS library problems... help!
 

A Newbies cry for help! ...just as everything seemed to be under control and great fun...

Something made me think I needed glib, so I installed glib-2.0.7. But now almost nothing works anymore.

I have redhat9, with gnome/fluxbox. Now when I startup, gkrellm doesn't appear in the slit anymore. Starting gkrellm from xterm gives:

error: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so: undefined symbol: g_get_application_name

Same error comes when I want to start ROX or Gedit (only then it's called 'relocation error)

Starting firebird gives:
'error while loading shared libraries: libgmodule-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

Thunderbird doesn't start either (without error message).

Emacs, xterm and Eterm still open without problem.

Log out also does not work, as it keeps stuck at this waiting-sand-thingie.

WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED that everything changed so dramatically?
Please anyone, inform me with some wise words?

Leon.

PS: the obvious thing (to me...), i.e. get rid of glib-2.0.7, didn't work since there was a huge list of dependencies (I compiled glib from tar using .configure, make, checkinstall, so I would have the option to rpm -e it away...).

How exactly did you instal glib? What did you install and how did you install it exactly?

Does the EDIT above give you the answer? Or should I be more specific?

PHEW!

Simply adding /usr/lib (and running ldconfig, but is that nessecary?) makes a h*ll of a difference! Now most apps work well again. Sorry for the panic, but hey I'm new to all this so bear with me please ;-)

However, firebird still doesn't want to start. Anyone a good tip how to rescue that issue as well?

Thnx, Leon.

the answer
 

After hunting down similar threads on gtk+ problems, I finally got it solved (and by reading documentation on www.gtk.org, learned a lot ;-)

I'll post the solution, hopefully it can be usefull for other newbies.

Thinking (please, correct me if I'm wrong, I merely guessing) that the apps that did not start up anymore must depend on an older version of gtk+, I wanted to reinstall gtk+-1.2 from the Redhat package CD. But for that I needed glib-1.2, which was exactly the problem why for example firebird didn't want to start. When glib-1.2 was installed (from Redhat CD) all was fine! (and as it turned out, gtk+-1.2 was already installed).

So I'm a happy fluxer again!

Cheers, Leon.