corrupt file?

[Biju Chacko]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:34:09 +0000, myth47 at comcast.net wrote:

> I saw the following on Slashdot and thought I'd bring it to your attention.  I
> 
> don't run Red Hat so I couldn't verify.
> 
> "I advise all RedHat users (downloading XFce RPMs) not to download and install
> 
> gtk2-2.2.4-1rh9.i386.rpm from the XFce SourceForge page - it prevented my gdm 
> graphical greeter from loading the login screen.
> 
> The error message was: "The theme for the graphical greeter is corrupt. It
> does not contain definition for the username/password entry element." I
> clicked OK several times, but the error message stayed there.
> 
> If you run into troubles, revert to an older package like gtk2-2.2.2-
> 0.ximian.6.3.i386.rpm or gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm"
> 
> If you already checked it out, please return to your regularly scheduled e-
> mail.  Thanks.

That file is not a part of the release. If I'm not mistaken, it's a version of
gtk2 with some of Olivier's patches applied. I'm not sure if there is any
documentation with the package, but it's alpha code at best.

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