0.72 seems to be doing the exact same thing. It seems to probably be the libraries it links to. I'll try reinstalling those.
~ ross On 10 Nov 2003, Brent Thomson wrote: > I found 0.71 pretty buggy myself. It only ever shut down about half of > the time. The other times it would close the buddy list, but then the > login screen would appear (but blank) and all things gnome stopped > responding. I could still ctrl-alt-bkspace and log in again, and things > were fine, so it seems that it could have been an issue with the window > manager or some drawing lib (since restarting the window manager seemed > to clear up the immediate problem). > > 0.72 seems to be working fine so far. > > -Brent > > On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 15:23, Ross Werner wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Michael Torrie wrote: > > > > > You probably have some serious issues with your computer or your distro > > > and this is just a symptom. I've been running gaim from freshrpms for > > > months (even upgrading the system from rh9 to fedora core betas, and now > > > fedora core). My system never does this. > > > > That's what I'm afraid of. It happened right after the "power outage" > > (misplaced foot) so I'm wondering if something weird got corrupted. I did > > check all the RPMs, and none of the md5 hashes have changed on anything > > important (nor any of the other things it usually flags). Could something > > have been corrupted but not show up in a RPM check? > > > > > Does gaim core-dump? > > > > It doesn't dump core, it just gives this message: > > > > gaim: relocation error: gaim: undefined symbol: gdk_draw_pixbuf > > > > and disappears. Google is unhelpful. > > > > > does bug-buddy say about it (bug-buddy can get you a stack trace). > > > > Does that require a core file? > > > > > Shot in the dark, but I'd say you've got some bad RAM. Either that or > > > you have a GTK version problem (say a conflict between a > > > system-installed gtk set of libraries and ones you've compiled > > > yourself. > > > > The RAM situation doesn't sound plausible, since it only started happening > > (like I said) after the "power outage"--and it seems only gaim has the > > problems. It might be that the GTK libraries got corrupted, though. > > > > Everything on this system is RPMs, though--I haven't compiled a single > > thing, so that can't be the problem. > > > > I may try out the new version of Gaim, however, and see if that makes a > > difference. > > > > ~ ross > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
