Problems with

[Brian J. Tarricone]

as someone in a previous thread noted, the fedora RPMs are b0rked; they 
were mistakenly compiled against gtk 2.6.

    -brian

Joe Klemmer wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Klaus Newman wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I just installed RC3 on my Gentoo system. Everything works just fine so far. 
>>Great job!
>>That's what I wanted for Christmas! Thank you very much, dear developers!
>>    
>>
>
>	I did an rpm -Uvh on all the rpms to go from rc2 to rc3 and now my
>desktop is completely borked.  
>
>* The xfce settings window has only three options [mouse, workspaces and
>margins, xfcalendar] (see attached).  
>
>* The taskbar is now just a grey bar on the screen with nothing on it at
>all.
>
>* All the other settings, like focus and themes and such, are all gone.
>
>* The clock seems to have gone AWOL on the panel.
>
>* xfdesktop is a little better than before but still doesn't like my 
>system.  Here's the error trace from when it runs...
>
>----------8<----------8<----------
>
>[klemmerj at emperor ~]$ xfdesktop&
>[1] 21606
>[klemmerj at emperor ~]$ 
>(xfdesktop:21606): Gtk-WARNING **: 
>/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libxfce.so: undefined symbol: 
>g_return_if_fail_warning
>
>** (xfdesktop:21606): CRITICAL **: XfceDesktopMenu init failed (The 
>XfceDesktopMenu module could not be loaded: 
>/usr/lib/xfce4/modules/xfce4_desktop_menu.so: undefined symbol: 
>g_return_if_fail_warning)
>
>** (xfdesktop:21606): WARNING **: xfdesktop: Unable to initialise menu 
>module. Right-click menu will be unavailable.
>
>xfdesktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libxfcegui4.so.3: undefined 
>symbol: g_return_if_fail_warning
>
>----------8<----------8<----------
>
>(The last line comes up when trying to do anything with the middle 
>button).
>
>	Is there a good/easy/non-destructive way of uninstalling all of 
>this and trying it fresh?  Can I just run an rpm -e on all the rpm 
>packages in the distribution file (including the plug-ins I have 
>installed)?  I'm going to try it and see.  I recently had to mess with my 
>yum.conf because something was confused about the libxfcegui4 was 
>conflicting with something somewhere.
>
>	Ah, for the good old days of DOS and Terminals...  NOT!  As much 
>as all this stuff gives me headaches it's so much better than the "Good 
>ol' days".
>
>	Here's waiting for RC 4 and wishing everyone a Happy 
>$(YOUR_HOLIDAY_OF_CHOICE).
>
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