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mexisme
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 Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: /etc/gtk-2.0 missing breaks GNOME/GDM |
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I've spent the last few days trying to work this one out:
I've been building Gentoo with Gnome on my workstation, but also using -b or 'quickpkg' to make binary packages so I can install the same on my Laptop without having to build from source twice.
I thought I had made a stupid mistake in installing with 'emerge -KDu' on the laptop because when I tried to start GDM on the laptop I'd get this error:
There was an error loading the theme gentoo-cow
Couldn't recognise the image file format for file '/usr/share/gdm/themes/gentoo-cow/gentoo-cow-alpha.png'
However, I discovered this web-site for Fedora which revealed that because my /etc/gtk-2.0 folder and contents was missing, the GTK/GDK libraries couldn't read any image files!!
http://www.ogre.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=3&postId=32
To paraphrase:
| Quote: | I've since upgrade a majority of my old RH9 packages to Fedora/devel, with only minor problems. One problem that took me a while to figure out (since my gdm wouldn't start) was that somehow the file /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders was missing. In my previous installation, this was part of the gdk2 RPM (from Ximian). As it turns out, this file can easily be recreated with a simple command:
| Code: | | root@thor 301/0 # gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders |
Without this file, pretty much every Gnome application (including GDM) will fail, with errors like:
Can not open pixbuf loader module file '/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders'
Error loading PNG image loader: Image type 'png' is not supported |
It seems you can do | Code: | | gtk-query-immodules-2.0 >/etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules |
for the other (apparently missing) file.
I don't know if this is a bug in one of the packages such that /etc/gtk-2.0/ is created and populated only when building from source, but it was incredibly frustrating!! |
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shoan
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks. Your post saved me a sleepless night.  |
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2lt.chronic
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Location: york.on.ca
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| Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| This post is from 2004, yet when I was compiling gnome TODAY the same problem existed and had to be rectified using this method. How did something like this slip through the cracks?! |
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rm
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Joined: 25 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 5:10 am Post subject: |
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idem dito, emerging gnome-2.12.0
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