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Bug 112354 - Metacity crashes using garnome-0.23.1 on Redhat 9 when launching from the panel
Metacity crashes using garnome-0.23.1 on Redhat 9 when launching from the panel
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-05-06 03:25 UTC by Rodd Clarkson
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.3/2.4



Description Rodd Clarkson 2003-05-06 03:25:46 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.
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2003-05-06 04:32:43 UTC
Try "METACITY_USE_LOGFILE=1 METACITY_VERBOSE=1 METACITY_SYNC=1
metacity --replace"
then crash metacity and compress/attach the logfile from /tmp
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2003-05-06 04:33:43 UTC
and/or run "DISPLAY=:0 gdb metacity; (gdb) run --replace" from a text
console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and attach the backtrace.
Comment 3 Ivan O'Bulist 2003-05-06 16:44:26 UTC
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).
Comment 4 Rob Adams 2003-05-06 16:49:38 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2003-05-06 16:52:01 UTC
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.