[arch-general] xscreensaver broken?

Ghost1227 ghost1227 at archlinux.us
Mon Jan 5 16:31:25 EST 2009


Husasam Al-Tayeb wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:45 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Ghost1227 <ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
>>     
>>> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hey all,
>>>>>
>>>>> mabye i'm doing something wrong, but xscreensaver-demo segfaults on my
>>>>> system:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ xscreensaver-demo
>>>>>
>>>>> (xscreensaver-demo:3073): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support
>>>>> for `gnome': libgthread: cannot open shared object file: No such file
>>>>> or directory
>>>>> xscreensaver-demo: 20:45:46: Gtk-warning: GtkSpinButton: setting an
>>>>> adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
>>>>> xscreensaver-demo: 20:45:46: Gtk-warning: GtkSpinButton: setting an
>>>>> adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
>>>>> xscreensaver-demo: 20:45:46: Gtk-warning: GtkSpinButton: setting an
>>>>> adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
>>>>> Segmentation fault
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> $ pacman -Q xscreensaver
>>>>> xscreensaver 5.08-1
>>>>>
>>>>> $ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgthread.so
>>>>> /usr/lib/libgthread.so is owned by glib 1.2.10-7
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Looks like xscreensaver-demo maybe needs gnome? That seems weird,
>>>> considering the upstream dev's stance on GUI toolkits for
>>>> xscreensaver.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I'm using xscreensaver{,-demo} under awesome...
>>>       
>> I meant libgnome.so, really. I'm looking at this error message:
>>
>>    Could not load support for `gnome':
>>    libgthread: cannot open shared object file:
>>    No such file or directory
>>
>> If I read that correctly, it's not saying "cannot find libgthread" but
>> saying that libgthread cannot load some shared object...
>>     
>
> try uninstalling glib and rebuilding xscreensaver. Maybe xscreensaver
> still builds under both glib and glib2. In that case, you want it to use
> glib2 instead of glib1
>
>
>   
I'd say that's probably the case... could be wrong though.

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