Re: gnome-theme-manager segfaults issue

On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 21:28, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> Is there any chance in getting this bug fixed in the ximian snaps?
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97883
> 
> For some reason the file libmetacity.so is not being installed via the
> snapshot rpms.  In speaking with someone in IRC, metacity-2.4.5
> installed via a tarball installed this file.  He suggested that perhaps
> the spec file was at fault.
> 
> Here is the terminal output when I try to run gnome-theme-manager:
> 
> (gnome-theme-manager:6707): capplet-common-WARNING **: Couldn't load
> window manager settings module
> `/usr/lib/window-manager-settings/libmetacity.so'
> (/usr/lib/window-manager-settings/libmetacity.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such
> file or directory)
>  
> (gnome-theme-manager:6707): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL)
> pointer instance
>  
> (gnome-theme-manager:6707): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gsignal.c:
> line 1853
> (g_signal_connect_data): assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)'
> failed
>  
> (gnome-theme-manager:6707): capplet-common-WARNING **: Couldn't load
> window manager settings module
> `/usr/lib/window-manager-settings/libmetacity.so'
> (/usr/lib/window-manager-settings/libmetacity.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such
> file or directory)
> 
> 

Along these same lines, Desktop Preferences->Windows produces "Cannot
start the preferences application for your window manager" and "Window
manager Metacity has not registered a configuration tool". The
Screensaver pref is still missing too. I asked before and I'll ask
again. Are these packaging errors? If so, I'll be happy to report a
bug...

tjb
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