corrupt file?

Jonathan Gardner bohemian72 at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 26 16:08:36 CEST 2003


I installed it, and it didn't cause any problems for
me. Odd.

Jonathan

--- Biju Chacko <biju_chacko at vsnl.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 
> -- b
> 
> -- 
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