[solved] All GTK+ Applications refuse to start

Suikun · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Currently my desktop environment is completely unusable due to the fact that no GTK apps want to start up.

This error began somehow non-critial. After some system upgrade, gqview just wouldn't start up and segfault every time. After a week or so this spread to Terminal, XChat and other applications, but firefox still worked. Now after an emerge -e world ("Hey, maybe it's some dependency problem, let's just rebuild the system!") I don't even get my XFCE bar or gnome panels. X starts up with background and everything and the bar at the bottom, but with panel plugins except the desktop chooser. Strangly that XFCE calendar applet still works, but its menus don't. I can't check for any error return values because I have no GUI console from which I could start applications. Applications not dependant on GTK such as ZSNES and mplayer still work.

I tried downgrading GTK to below 2.8 and rebuilding, but that didn't help at all and after a week of trying assorted stuff (new kernel and everything), I'm just getting too frustrated...help?

pussi · l33t Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 727 Location: Finland

Did you try revdep-rebuild (comes with gentoolkit package)

Suikun · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Yes, no libraries are reported as missing.

Suikun · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

For some unholy reason Terminal is working again. Still the only error report I get from applications is "Segmentation Faul" which isn't all that helpful :/

codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:51 pm Post subject:

I got something similar a few months after I started with Gentoo. On a whim, I removed all my settings directories (~/.gconf*, ~/.gnome* ~/.nautilus* etc.) and ran an `emerge -e world`. That seemed to fix it for me. I hope it fixes it for you too.

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Suikun · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2005 Posts: 4

Got it!
A newer version of Anthy (Japanese input) segfaulted while loading its dictionaries. Couple this with SCIM input for GTK+ dependencies and you get a whole lot of crashing apps, woo!
emerge "<anthy-7000" solved my problems for good!