Gnome 2.2 will not start on my CURRENT system

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: 22 Jul 2003 19:48:14 -0400
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> On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 19:44, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> > > Date: 22 Jul 2003 18:14:33 -0400
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> > > On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 17:05, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure if this is a threading issue or a Gnome issue, but...
> > > >=3D20
> > > > Today I could not start Gnome on my desktop CURRENT system. X starts
> > > > fine, but Gnome start-up immediately bombs out (and X goes with it)
> > > > with the message:
> > > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libc_r.so.5: Undefined symbol "__t=
> hr_j=3D
> > > table"
> > > >=3D20
> > > > I have rebuilt my system, so I have a current libc_r.so and I have
> > > > checked that all of the gnome components are up-to-date as of this
> > > > morning.
> > > >=3D20
> > > > Any idea what is happening here?
> > >=20
> > > This is the same problem you reported before, and so far you're the onl=
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> > > one that's reported it.  Have you installed anything from packages that
> > > might have been built against on older version of libc_r?
> >=20
> > No, the last problem was quite a bit different. (Well, it was a loader
> > issue.) It was an error that occurred when building Gnome and was
> > cause by an out-dated gmake which produced a message making libintl.so
> > suspect.
> >=20
> > This is a run-time error with the problem in libc_r. And, what makes
> > it worse is that gnome was starting last week and went away this
> > week. I only re-built some ports in between. (Unfortunately, I don't
> > recall just what ports.)
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> Can you isolate a certain component that causes the error?  That is, can
> you launch pure GTK applications (e.g gaim)?  Can you launch
> gconf-editor?  If we can isolate a bad dependency, that may help.

Yes, gtk based apps run. gconf-editor also runs, although it finds
nothing since gconfd is not running.

The failure seems to hit right as Gnome starts. I never see a splash
or anything else. I have fired off gnome-session with truss and I am
looking through it now. At the same time I am doing a portupgrade on
gnomesession and all dependencies. (Probably a waste of time, but it
seems worth a shot.)

FWIW, __thr_jtable is shown a undefined in libc_r.so on both working
and non-working CURRENT systems.

Thanks,
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634