Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so"

[OrangeVixen]

I've been having this problem whenever I run any GTK (gtk-1) app:

Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load module "libcanberra-gtk-module.so": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate loadable module in module_path: "libpixmap.so",

Reading the archives, help, and other posts... reinstalling the canberra packages did not help. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any more recent soltion?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04.

[OrangeVixen]

Bump, anyone with this problem ever got it fixed?

[lebe0024]

I am also having this problem and it is annoying. Any gtk app started from the command line produces this error. I don't have canberra installed, nor do I want it installed. But something is trying to initialize it. I removed all my gtk rc files/directories in my home directory, and there's nothing under /etc/gtk*.

[lebe0024]

SOLVED. Something along the way set my GTK_MODULES environment variable to include the canberra gtk module. I simply unset this environment variable. It was probably some theme I downloaded and installed. I don't know much about gtk themes.

[OrangeVixen]

Super!!

Almost solved, we need a permanent way to unset it.

Where do I unset the environment GTK_MODULE?

The only bashrc is in $HOME/.bashrc, is there somewhere else I should unset this in Ubuntu 9.04?

[wd5gnr]

Have a look in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/52libcanberra-gtk-module_add-to-gtk-modules

You can make the file nonreadable (sudo chmod 000 52libcan* ) or edit it to suit.

[blueyed]

You might rather want to uninstall the "libcanberra-gtk-module" package instead (which ships this file according to "dpkg -S X11/Xsession.d/52libcanberra-gtk-module_add-to-gtk-modules").

It's still a workaround though and the real bug is something more like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcanberra/+bug/872172 .