Bug 92280 – gdmconfig crashes with error msg: Cannot load user interface

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Balint Jeno Biro 2005-05-11 11:46:37 UTC]

when trying to run gdmconfig it displays an error window saying:
Cannot load user interface
An error occured while loading the user interface element acc_options_cat_label from file gdmsetup.glade. Possibly the glade interface description was corrupted. gdm cannot continue and will exit now. You should check your installation of gdm or reinstall gdm.

In the terminal it leaves:

defiant root # gdmconfig

** (gdmsetup:20038): WARNING **: Glade file is on crack! Make sure the correct file is installed!
file: gdmsetup.glade widget: acc_options_cat_label
defiant root #



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. run gdmconfig
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
gdmconfig showed the error msg. mentioned above

Expected Results:  
gdmconfig should work

defiant root # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20
041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r51 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r51 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 28 2005, 11:56:37)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    [Not Present]
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.16
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde
/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/confi
g /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/
texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/gener
ic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmai
l/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -pipe -O3 -msse2 -mmmx -mfpmath=sse"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.math.bme.hu http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gen
too/ http://gentoo.ynet.sk/pub http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aalib aim alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib caps crypt cup
s curl directfb eds emboss encode esd fam fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd
gdbm gif gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile icq imagemagick imlib ipv6 jabber java
jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmap mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncu
rses network nls ntpl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt qu
icktime readline ruby samba sdl silc slang spell sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcltk
tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis x
ine xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERL AY

[Comment 1 Balint Jeno Biro 2005-05-11 12:18:24 UTC]

Sorry i left out this, the version was: gnome-base/gdm-2.6.0.7 .

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2005-06-03 14:12:36 UTC]

tried rebuilding it, it could just be a corrupt file as the error indicates?

[Comment 3 John N. Laliberte (RETIRED) 2005-07-05 16:51:13 UTC]

please try what comment #2 suggested and reopen the bug if necessary.

no response from reporter.