On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:55:10 -0500, you wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:29:34 -0400 columbo <columbo@wowway.com> quoted:
To the List: Actually buying and installing ANY version of Linux is the major goal of all on this list, I hope! But, when a distro has problems, instead of just bad mouthing it, people should ask for help!!
But where and how can people "ask for help" ?
At about the time I updated from SuSE 9.2 to SuSE 9.3, all functions involving GNOME stopped working. The symptom common to all this is the error message (all on one line):
| symbol lookup error: /opt/gnome/lib/libglade-2.0.so.0: | undefined symbol: gtk_about_dialog_get_type
I posted my problem to this list. I got only one responder, who was able to clear a similar problem by re-installing Gtk. Well, I've reinstalled (from the 9.3 DVD) every package I can think of, and nothing helps. [I'm wondering if the 9.3 DVD I got is different from other people's. I ordered mine through SuSE.] I also emailed the developers, but got no answer.
I had my reasons for doing an upgrade of SuSE from 9.2 to 9.3. If I am forced to do a reinstall from scratch, I'm thinking of using another distribution than SuSE -- I'm THAT disappointed.
Well, get used to the feeling because the odds are very good that you'll encounter it with whatever distro you switch to. There's a reason why most people recommend against upgrading as opposed to a reinstall. Why do people come in here and ask advice, do the exact OPPOSITE of the advice they're given, then bitch and whine when whatever they did doesn't work? BTW - your specific problem is that some program (can't tell which one from that error message) was written to a particular version of libglade, and you don't have that version of libglade on your system. You need to either recompile the problem program or install the correct libglade. I don't use gnome so I can't tell you much more. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.