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prolapse
January 26th, 2009, 02:10 AM
I am running Ubuntu 8.04, I haven't really made any recent changes to this system hardware wise, nor have I changed any settings or anything that I can think of that would cause this. When I go to System > Preferences > Appearance nothing happens. If I right click on my desktop and go to Change Desktop Background nothing happens. Finally if I run 'gnome-appearance-properties' in a terminal I get the following error...
gnome-appearance-properties: error while loading shared libraries: t��<$������$��������D=: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could do to fix this? As far as I can tell everything else is working as it should. Thanks a lot! :)
snova
January 26th, 2009, 03:43 AM
Post its shared library dependencies:
ldd /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
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January 26th, 2009, 03:51 AM
Post its shared library dependencies:
ldd /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties
ok here you go:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7ee8000)
libgnome-window-settings.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgnome-window-settings.so.1 (0xb7ed0000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb7ec7000)
t��<$������$��������D= => not found
�`��� => not found
�� => not found
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��$�z => not found
�ۻ���S��u��D => not found
libgnomeui-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0 (0xb7e3d000)
libgnomevfs-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.so.0 (0xb7de4000)
libgnome-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnome-2.so.0 (0xb7dcf000)
libgconf-2.so.4 => /usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4 (0xb7d9f000)
libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb7d9a000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0xb7d88000)
libmetacity-private.so.0 => /usr/lib/libmetacity-private.so.0 (0xb7d5f000)
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb79e8000)
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xb7964000)
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xb794c000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7927000)
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xb78e9000)
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xb7887000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb785d000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7776000)
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb773a000)
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7689000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7670000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7521000)
libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xb751e000)
libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb74bd000)
libglade-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglade-2.0.so.0 (0xb74a5000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7385000)
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2 (0xb7362000)
libstartup-notification-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstartup-notification-1.so.0 (0xb7359000)
libgnome-menu.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgnome-menu.so.2 (0xb7344000)
libpanel-applet-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpanel-applet-2.so.0 (0xb7336000)
libbonoboui-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0 (0xb72d8000)
libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0 (0xb72a7000)
libpopt.so.0 => /lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb729f000)
libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0xb7289000)
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xb726f000)
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xb7266000)
libbonobo-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libbonobo-2.so.0 (0xb720b000)
libbonobo-activation.so.4 => /usr/lib/libbonobo-activation.so.4 (0xb71f6000)
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb71f2000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb71ee000)
libORBit-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBit-2.so.0 (0xb719c000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb7193000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb718a000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb7172000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb716a000)
libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb7165000)
libgnome-keyring.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgnome-keyring.so.0 (0xb7155000)
libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 (0xb713a000)
libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xb7103000)
libgnutls.so.13 => /usr/lib/libgnutls.so.13 (0xb708d000)
libavahi-glib.so.1 => /usr/lib/libavahi-glib.so.1 (0xb708a000)
libavahi-common.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 (0xb707f000)
libavahi-client.so.3 => /usr/lib/libavahi-client.so.3 (0xb7070000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libresolv.so.2 (0xb705c000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb7058000)
libesd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libesd.so.0 (0xb704e000)
libaudiofile.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaudiofile.so.0 (0xb7029000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb6fbc000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb6fa7000)
libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xb6fa3000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb6f95000)
libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xb6f92000)
libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb6f8a000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xb6f84000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7ee9000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xb6f60000)
libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xb6f37000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6e44000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6e39000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb6e18000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb6e15000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb6dfd000)
libpcre.so.3 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 (0xb6dd6000)
libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xb6dbd000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb6db9000)
libgailutil.so.18 => /usr/lib/libgailutil.so.18 (0xb6db2000)
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xb6d8b000)
libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so.0 (0xb6d86000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libnsl.so.1 (0xb6d6d000)
libtasn1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libtasn1.so.3 (0xb6d5d000)
libgcrypt.so.11 => /lib/libgcrypt.so.11 (0xb6d10000)
libasound.so.2 => /usr/lib/libasound.so.2 (0xb6c4d000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb6c47000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0xb6c43000)
prolapse
January 26th, 2009, 04:24 PM
This is strange I have never encountered this before, I especially do not understand what the deal is with the non-displayable characters. :?
theozzlives
January 26th, 2009, 04:29 PM
from a Windows point of view, I'd say something was corrupt on your hard drive... try fsck
prolapse
January 26th, 2009, 04:37 PM
Also when I run the same command on my desktop that is running ubuntu 8.04 as well I get the same output except for the part that is garbled on the computer with the issue appears as follows...
libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2 (0xb7f8b000)
libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xb7f2a000)
libglade-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglade-2.0.so.0 (0xb7f12000)
libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb7df1000)
libgnome-desktop-2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-2.so.2 (0xb7dcf000)
my guess would be that these libraries are corrupt or something on this computer but I'm still relatively new to linux in general so I could be on the wrong track.
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