I updated glib and gtk+ to latest stable version (2.8.6, 2.8.12, respectively) They both compiled, but afterward I was unable to log in. The login screen would not appear. The error I got from xorg and other graphical programs was " /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_object_compat_control " I tried revdep-rebuild, and the unstable version of gtk+ (2.8.13). Nothing. In the end I reverted glib and gtk+ back to older versions (2.8.5, 2.8.8) and everything worked again. ----------------emerge --info------------------------------------- Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1300MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib aim alsa amd apm audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bonobo browserplugin bzip2 cairo calendar ccachei cdb cdda cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr corba crypt curl dbus dhcp dri dvd dvdr dvdread encode exif expat extensions fam ffmpeg firefox flac font-server fortran freetype ftp gd gif glitz glut gmail gmailtimestamps gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal howl idn imagemagick imap imlib ipod ipv6 java javascript jce jpeg kerberos krb4 lcms libwww mad mime mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mppe-mppc msni ncurses nls noreiserfs nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png python quicktime readline real recode samba sblive screen sdl sftplogging silverxp speex spell sse sse2 ssl stream svg svga tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xml2 xmms xscreensaver xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
afaics this should only happen if you have 2 versions of glib on your system.
(In reply to comment #1) > afaics this should only happen if you have 2 versions of glib on your system. > $ equery list glib [ Searching for package 'glib' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5 (1) [I--] [ ] dev-libs/glib-2.8.5 (2) [I--] [ ] dev-perl/glib-perl-1.101 (0) This is what I have. Isn't this standard? Note: I'm using 2.8.5 now, but the issue is with 2.8.6
I don't know if this is helpful, but I tried recompiling gtk+ with glib 2.8.5 (I've masked 2.8.6). It still didn't work, exact same problem.
The fact that portage doesn't report it, is not guarantee there is no lingering libs anywhere. Ever compiled any glib version from scratch or not from the Gentoo repository ?
(In reply to comment #4) > The fact that portage doesn't report it, is not guarantee there is no lingering > libs anywhere. Ever compiled any glib version from scratch or not from the > Gentoo repository ? > No, I don't think I've ever done that. Are there any particular libs I can search for? A search for libglib turn up nothing strange: $ locate libglib /usr/lib/libglib.a /usr/lib/libglib.la /usr/lib/libglib.so /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10 /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.la /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.0.so.1.5.11 /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.0.so.1 /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.0.so /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.0.la /usr/lib/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1 /usr/lib/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so /usr/lib/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.la /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.la /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.800.5 /usr/lib/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1.0.17 /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1.0.17
Paul, Can you still reproduce this bug with newer versions of glib/gtk ? If you can't, please reopen this bug. Thanks
