[arch-general] gnome-session won't start [testing + gnome-unstable]

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Wed Oct 17 05:49:55 EDT 2012


On 10/17/2012 10:09 AM, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I tried upgrading to gnome 3.6 using the gnome-unstable + testing repos.
> 
> gdm did not start. So I started xinit manually. From xterm (started by
> xinit,) I tried to run gnome-session. I got this error:
> 
> gnome-session: symbol lookup error: gnome-session: undefined symbol:
> g_spawn_check_exit_status
> 
> 
> I then tried to run metacity. I got this error:
> 
> metacity: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0:
> undefined symbol: g_object_replace_qdata
> 
> 
> Please let me know if there is any more info you would like, or if there
> is any thing I can do to help.
> 
> Thanks for the effort you are putting it to this. I'm looking forward to
> using 3.6
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gary

From what I can see, your problem is related to glib2. Do you have at
least  2.34.0 ?

-- 
Ionuț

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