GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 112354
Metacity crashes using garnome-0.23.1 on Redhat 9 when launching from the panel
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
After building garnome-0.23.1 on a fairly stock Redhat 9 install, everytime I run an application from the panel, metacity crashes and on restart all the windows move down the desktop. I've tried this with both metacity-2.4.34 and metacity-2.5.1 and with gnome-panel-2.2.1 and gnome-panel-2.3.1. I'm happy to try and elaborate further, but not sure what to look for.
Try "METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1 METACITY_VERBOSE=1 METACITY_SYNC=1 metacity --replace" then crash metacity and compress/attach the logfile from /tmp
and/or run "DISPLAY=:0 gdb metacity; (gdb) run --replace" from a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and attach the backtrace.
Metacity exits with this: relocation error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1: undefined symbol: XRenderCreateAnimCursoralso c This also happens when launching other applications (e.g. Epiphany Bookmark Editor, Mozilla Mail).
You must be running a metacity build which has been linked against a version of the xlibs that you don't have available. What version of XFree86 are you running? You can either build metacity from source or upgrade your X libraries I would guess to fix the problem.
Oh, I had this problem once too. Probably caused by linking metacity to the Xrender from garnome, but also linking metacity to libXcursor that comes with Red Hat Linux, but that libXcursor expects the Xrender that came with Red Hat Linux. Garnome should maybe include libXcursor to address this.