On 3 Jul 2004 18:34:32 -0700, Amol wrote:
> Problem description:
> --------------------
> Some of my GUI apps wont start up, to name a few:
> Mozilla, Galleon, Evolution, Mandrake Control Centre,

> (the list goes on and on)

> The few ones that I can start include:
> Terminal, GEdit, GNUCash, KEdit, Konqueror, Quanta

> Probable cause?
> ---------------
> The only other change that I have made is that I
> installed latest version of GTK/GLib/ATK/pango (after
> several tries). During this process I think I uninstalled
> the previous version of GTK.

You answered your own question.
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Crashdamage <03z1krd7@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:<4e71968cbf20d13ba8574708002aa440@news.teranews.com>...
> On 3 Jul 2004 18:34:32 -0700, Amol wrote:
> > Problem description:
> > --------------------
> > Some of my GUI apps wont start up, to name a few:
> > Mozilla, Galleon, Evolution, Mandrake Control Centre,
>
> > (the list goes on and on)
>
> > The few ones that I can start include:
> > Terminal, GEdit, GNUCash, KEdit, Konqueror, Quanta
>
> > Probable cause?
> > ---------------
> > The only other change that I have made is that I
> > installed latest version of GTK/GLib/ATK/pango (after
> > several tries). During this process I think I uninstalled
> > the previous version of GTK.
>
> You answered your own question.

Any idea what I can do to fix it?

On 4 Jul 2004 20:03:27 -0700, Amol wrote:
> Crashdamage <03z1krd7@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:<4e71968cbf20d13ba8574708002aa440@news.teranews.com>...
>> On 3 Jul 2004 18:34:32 -0700, Amol wrote:
>> > Problem description:
>> > --------------------
>> > Some of my GUI apps wont start up, to name a few:
>> > Mozilla, Galleon, Evolution, Mandrake Control Centre,
>>
>> > (the list goes on and on)
>>
>> > The few ones that I can start include:
>> > Terminal, GEdit, GNUCash, KEdit, Konqueror, Quanta
>>
>> > Probable cause?
>> > ---------------
>> > The only other change that I have made is that I
>> > installed latest version of GTK/GLib/ATK/pango (after
>> > several tries). During this process I think I uninstalled
>> > the previous version of GTK.
>>
>> You answered your own question.

> Any idea what I can do to fix it?

Reinstall your earlier version of GTK. Probably wiil need to do the
same with Glib too to get everything right again, but it may be very
difficult (impossible? - not sure, I'd have to check into that) to make
the 2 versions co-exist on the same machine.

If you use urpmi properly, these problems won't happen.
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Crashdamage <03z1krd7@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:<4f4cb8dff5fe3eba55272679a4f8bbf7@news.teranews.com>...
> On 4 Jul 2004 20:03:27 -0700, Amol wrote:
> > Crashdamage <03z1krd7@nospam.invalid> wrote in message news:<4e71968cbf20d13ba8574708002aa440@news.teranews.com>...
> >> On 3 Jul 2004 18:34:32 -0700, Amol wrote:
> >> > Problem description:
> >> > --------------------
> >> > Some of my GUI apps wont start up, to name a few:
> >> > Mozilla, Galleon, Evolution, Mandrake Control Centre,
>
> >> > (the list goes on and on)
>
> >> > The few ones that I can start include:
> >> > Terminal, GEdit, GNUCash, KEdit, Konqueror, Quanta
>
> >> > Probable cause?
> >> > ---------------
> >> > The only other change that I have made is that I
> >> > installed latest version of GTK/GLib/ATK/pango (after
> >> > several tries). During this process I think I uninstalled
> >> > the previous version of GTK.
> >>
> >> You answered your own question.
>
> > Any idea what I can do to fix it?
>
> Reinstall your earlier version of GTK. Probably wiil need to do the
> same with Glib too to get everything right again, but it may be very
> difficult (impossible? - not sure, I'd have to check into that) to make
> the 2 versions co-exist on the same machine.
>
> If you use urpmi properly, these problems won't happen.

Thanks for that! I was desperately looking for rpm installables
for Mandrake when I was upgrading GTK etc.

Anyway, my problem is resolved for now. I did as you suggested and
reinstalled GTK/Glib/ATK/Pango, only this time I got all the latest
versions and installed each in the correct sequence (glib,atk,pango,gtk)
and a reboot later all was fine

BTW, I only realised a few unsuccessful tries and a little googling later
that configure should be used with "-prefix /usr" option! So from what it
seems, I had previously uninstalled GTK etc. and not really installed the
latest versions in the right location :S

Regards,
~ amol


Regards,
~ amol
this time