fc4 on x86_64, gtk2 weird behaviour

[oleksandr korneta]

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?
> 

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regards,
Oleksandr Korneta

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