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

Léo Unbekandt vivaneon at gmail.com
Wed Oct 17 15:40:27 EDT 2012


You have to move the gnome-unstable repository lines over [core] and 
[testing] to use the correct glib2 from gnome-unstable repo.

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Leo Unbekandt

Le mer. 17 oct. 2012 11:49:55 CEST, Ionut Biru a écrit :
> 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 ?
>




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