gnome startup errors

[Derek Doucette]

While trying as you did to open a few apps from the command line that I
could not using the gui I started to find some issues.  One program I
tried was gnome-background-properties.  From the CL as root it opened
fine, but not as my normal user.  Here is the error I got, and i have
seen some similar things around before.

Glib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of abstract
(non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'

Which is making it look like a glibc issue and makes me nervous.  Does
this help anyone at all.

Derek

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 08:25, Dan Coutu wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 00:34, Derek Doucette wrote:
> > I have somehow broken something in gnome.  Whenever I start X as gnome
> > is loading gnome-panel, magicdev, metacity, and nautalis all segfault
> > and then sometimes work again.  
> 
> I had this happen just a couple days ago after I used Ximian's updater
> to install Evolution 1.4 on my system. The problem turned out to be that
> for some reason orbit was not getting started. Orbit is the Corba server
> that almost all Gnome stuff uses. I was able to determine this by
> starting applications from the command line and seeing the error
> messages that normally go into the bit bucket when you startup things
> from the graphic interface.
> 
> I did find that if I logged with Gnome instead of KDE then all worked
> correctly. I never fully resolved the issue since I reinstalled Red Hat
> yesterday onto a new bigger drive and just migrated my old files off the
> old drive.
> 
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> Dan Coutu
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