Re: Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path:"libpixmap.so"

[Vlad Harchev <hvv hippo ru>]

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David Frascone wrote:

> Hmm . . .strange . . .seems that a theme did it.  If I remove my .gtkrc, it
> works fine.  Here is the offensive .gtkrc

 If you remove .gtkrc, it seems that gtk+ will use default theme that doesn't
require pixmap engine - so this is the reason the message disappears.
 
 Could you try restoring your original .gtkrc shown below, and add
	module_path "/usr/lib/gtk/themes/"
 to it and report results.
 
> # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
> include "/home/chaos/.themes/DarkMarble/gtk/gtkrc"
> 
> style "user-font"
> {
>   font="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
> }
> widget_class "*" style "user-font"
> 
> include "/home/chaos/.gtkrc.mine"
> 
> # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
> 
> .gtkrc.mine does not exist, and DarkMarble's gtkrc does not modify the 
> module_path
> 
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 07:10:45PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David Frascone wrote:
> > 
> > > Wups . . got chopped.
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:48:59AM -0500, David Frascone wrote:
> > > > >  I didn't have such problem, but is it owned by root and has access rights 
> > > > > "rwxr-xr-x" - I recall something about linux dynamic loader that requires *.so
> > > > > to have execute persmissions for everybody.
> > > > > 
> > > > Here's mine :)
> > > > [chaos@chaos chaos]$ ls -l /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines
> > > > :
> > > > :
> > > > :
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          784 Apr  5 07:01 libpixmap.la
> > > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       216930 Apr  5 07:01 libpixmap.so
> > > > :
> > > > :
> > > > :
> > > > 
> > 
> >   In original message, you've stated that you added
> > 	 module_path "/usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines"
> >   to your gtkrc.
> >   But it seems that you should use module_path "/usr/lib/gtk/themes/" for your
> > file layout (I see this looking at the comments in gtkrc's of various themes).
> > Please try this and report.
> > 
> >   If it still doesn't work: Did you compile libpixmap.so yourself (what is
> > your distro)? If I were you, I would try the following then:
> > 
> >  1) Get compiled libpixmap.so from any other place (i.e. from RedHat - it's in 
> > 	gtk-engines.rpmor something like this) and try it.
> >  2) If 1) is not acceptable - may be your libgtk.so and libpixmap.so are
> > 	compiled by different versions of gcc (and probably linked with
> > 	different versions of glibc), so try to compile them with the same
> > 	compiler (and probably without all optimizations).
> >  
> >  HTH

 Best regards,
  -Vlad