Re: New RH RPMS - few minor 'bugs'

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

mwong4@po-box.mcgill.ca writes:

> Hi everyone!
> 
> My thanks and congradulations to the Gnome and Red Hat Labs teams for
> putting out a great product and FINALLY putting them into RPMS.
> 
> I just have a few things that have seemed to go broke with the new RPMS.
> 
> First off, linuxconf (the stock one that comes with RH5.2) don't work
> now.  It gives "remadmin (GUI frontend) exiting abnormaly"  May have
> something to do with the now glib10, gtk+10 packages?

Hmmm. It works here. The glib10 and gtk+10 packages should
be virtually unchanged from the versions of glib and GTK+
shipped with 5.2.
 
> Second GQmpeg segfausts on me now and

Since GQmpeg isn't in that set of RPM's I assumed you compiled
it yourself or installed it from elsewhere. You might
try recompiling it and see if that helps.

> GnoRPM gives the dreaded
> 
> gnorpm: error in loading shared libraries
>: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
>
> error!  I thought that this was a gcc/egcs conflict problem.

This indicates that one of the libraries that gnorpm is
using is compiled against egcs. Since this doesn't 
happen on a clean 5.2 system with these RPM's, it looks
like something didn't get upgraded on your box. 
Commands like:

 ldd `which gnorpm`

and 

 rpm -qf /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32

May help track down which one it is. (If you find out
and it didn't get upgraded because the version numbers
weren't correct, please let us know)
 
> Finally, there seems to be a file missing. /usr/lib/gnomeConf.sh  As I
> can't compile from SRPMS.

Actually, what this means really is that you are missing the
'gnome-config' script. gnome-libs-devel-1.0.8-1rh
includes that, so maybe you just don't have the devel packages
installed. They are in the Devel/ directory.

> So hopefully someone has workarounds or something.  I guess I could
> just change back to the old RPMS if I really wanted to.

Not recommended ;-)
                                        Owen