[NBLUG/talk] Weird GNOME error after upgrading KDE

[Lincoln Peters]

I'm running Debian/testing.  I was having problems with Kontact crashing, and 
upon further investigation, I determined that the version of Kontact in the 
testing branch was a beta version.  I then found that the version in the 
unstable branch was not a beta, so I decided to upgrade all of my KDE 
packages to unstable.  I did not dist-upgrade (since I remember completely 
destroying my system by upgrading from the unstable branch on at least one 
occasion); only KDE packages and those that they depend on were upgraded.

KDE seems to be running just fine, and Kontact is no longer crashing.  
However, I seem to have somehow wrecked the GTK/GNOME installation in the 
process.  I can't be sure what's going on, but I have observed two symptoms:

1. The GNOME startup scripts hang if I try to log in using GNOME (which I 
haven't had reason to do for years)

2. if I run a GTK+ or GNOME application from within KDE, several words seem to 
be missing from every widget until I move the mouse over them.  In most 
cases, only the first word of each line shows up (e.g. in Synaptic, the 
description of the kontact package should read "KDE pim application", but 
instead reads "KDE"), although this doesn't always seem to be the case (e.g. 
in Synaptic's "Package" menu, the "Mark for installation" command appears 
as "Mark     installation").


I'm completely stumped, as I've never seen an error like this before, and I 
can't see anything I changed that might have led to the error.  Anyone have 
any ideas, or at least ideas of where else to look?


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Lincoln Peters		<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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