fc4 on x86_64, gtk2 weird behaviour

[oleksandr korneta]

on 01/05/2006 11:34 PM Jon Savage wrote:
> On 1/5/06, oleksandr korneta <mai11ist at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 
>>so seems like no one knows what the problem might be...
>>not good
>>
>>
>>on 01/04/2006 11:15 PM oleksandr korneta wrote:
>>
>>>Hello All,
>>>
>>>I'm fighting with FC4 trying to make it work on x86_64 (Turion) based
>>>laptop. Honestly saying there is a whole bunch of troubles so far. But I
>>>   hope (still) to handle those.
>>>
>>>Anyway here is the point. Something weird has happened to all gtk2-based
>>>  applications. Whenever you try to open Open/Save dialog window the
>>>program just hangs and you have to kill it. If you run it as regular
>>>user there is no output to console, however running something (let's say
>>>gedit) from the root terminal seems to yield this:
>>>
>>># gedit
>>>*** glibc detected *** gedit: malloc(): memory corruption:
>>>0x00000000009a7c80 ***
>>>
>>>
>>>again application just hangs.
>>>
>>>I have to say that, firefox (1.5) behaves a bit differently. It also
>>>gets stuck, but not always. Sometimes it works just fine for some reason.
>>>
>>>The only thing I recall, one can blame on is that I've updated gnome to
>>>2.12 from http://www.nrpms.net repository. But I'm not sure about that
>>>being a reason.
>>>
>>>any suggestions?
>>>
>>
>>--
>>regards,
>>Oleksandr Korneta
>>
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> 
> well a quick glance at the repository you referenced shows:
>  "WARNING: Renke Brausse has informed me there are some issues with
> the current x86_64 rpms. We're working on resolving these as quickly
> as possible. Thanks for your patience."
> quite prominently displayed on their home page.
well, I just thought that everything from /production repository is 
already polished...

> 
> IMHO your problem likely has more to do with the "(b)leading edge of
> GNOME software for each stable Fedora Core release." you obtained from
> nrpms.net than anything to do with fedora core 4 itself.
Yes I know that but I just expected that someone more experienced might 
give a hint about the package that causes the problem. Anyway, seems 
like rollback has solved the problem. I'm going to stay on 2.10 for a 
while.


> 
> You'll probably have more luck at:
> http://www.nrpms.net/Lists/
thanks


-- 
regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

/The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from./