I don't use the GNOME desktop but I like gnome-terminal, so I installed it and all its dependencies. This worked OK, but when I wanted to change the font gnome-terminal uses (Edit / Current Profile..) gnome-terminal would crash. I tracked this down to the installation of /usr/lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so as satisfying one of gnome-terminal's dependencies (glade), but this path was not in /etc/ld.so.conf - one quick fix is simply to symlink /usr/lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so to /usr/lib/libgnome.so It's unfortunate that gnome-terminal does not complain loudly when it attempts to load libgnome.so (which only happens when you try and change its configuration...) instead, it simply segfaults. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. on a clean system, install gnome-terminal (and, of course, things it depends on) 2. run gnome-terminal 3. from the edit menu, choose 'current profile' Actual Results: gnome-terminal segfaulted Expected Results: brought up a configuration panel to change colors/fonts/scrolling etc It may be significant that I don't have a "full" GNOME install, only gnome-terminal and its dependencies.
I'm not quite sure how you've got gnome-terminal installed without libgnome installed, as it's a dependency of libgnomeui. Did you remove any packages locally? Please attach the output of qpkg -f /usr/lib/libgnome.so qpkg -I -v libgnome
Hi. All I meant was that I haven't installed a "complete GNOME desktop" if you will. At any rate, the output of the commands are: qpkg -f /usr/lib/libgnome.so : <nothing appears> qpkg -I -v libgnome : gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.4.0 * gnome-base/libgnome-2.4.0 * gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.4.0.1 * gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.4.2 * gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.4.2 * dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.0.1 * dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.0.1 * dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.0.0 * To stop gnome-terminal from crashing when trying to configure it, I manually symlinked /usr/lib/libglade/2.0/libgnome.so to /usr/local/lib/libgnome.so qpkg -f /usr/local/lib/libgnome.so also produces nothing. Hmmm.
i think obz might of wanted to see /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so rather than libgnome.so ? anyway, try re-emerging libglade, looks like something problematic happening there. can you give the output of emerge info and also try starting gnome-terminal in an xterm and see if there are any messages on the console? btw, the symlink trick isn't recommended, and plus, portage never installs anything in /usr/local so if stuff breaks when you link to /usr/local, we can't help you with that.
no response, closing
