fc4 on x86_64, gtk2 weird behaviour

[Jon Savage]

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.

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.

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



--
Bests,
Jon