[NBLUG/talk] Re: Weird GNOME error

[AA6AV]

Hi, Lincoln.
I've been experiencing these same errors for a couple of weeks.
I use GNOME for my Debian Unstable desktop.
The problem cleared up by itself a couple day ago, after a daily
upgrade (or dist-upgrade).  Your description of the problem is
quite good, and I was just waiting for someone to have this problem
so I wouldn't have to describe it.
In addition, my gecko based browsers all did the same thing, but
not Opera.  It was pretty strange.

I hope the problem goes away for you soon.

Peter
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 16:01:57 -0700
> From: Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Weird GNOME error after upgrading KDE
> To: NBLUG list <talk at nblug.org>
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> 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?
> 
> 

-- 
Peter Lutz  AA6AV
Debian Linux 2.6.11.12