Re: gnome problems - Segementation Fault

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mark Watson wrote:
> 
> to recap what has happened so far:
> installed all the suse gnome rpms from the link off of gnome.org.
> missing libgmodule, I downloaded that as a source and compiled,
> installed and pointed gnome at where those libraries had been slapped
> down.  now it gives me this error.
> 
> It anyone knows what the deal is, I'm open to the help.
> 

Your libraries don't "match" (i.e. you're mixing versions) so calls are
made to the library with mistaken assumptions about memory layout, causing
the program to attempt to access memory the operating system has not given
it access to.  Accessing the wrong segment of memory is called a
segmentation fault.

Anyway, the basic problem is compiling gmodule yourself and using the
rpm's for the rest. If you use rpm's, you need to use rpm's only. If the
rpms don't have libgmodule then they are apparently broken? I don't use
them so I don't know. Maybe someone else can shed some light.

Havoc