japcrword
January 13th, 2011, 10:12 AM
My problem: The desktop environment doesn't load after I login. I can see only a gnome-terminal window with menu (but without title). If I close this terminal my login session will end.
Here's what it looks like (see attachment).
I suspect this is connected with my upgrading GTK+ and the necessary dependencies (GdkPixbuf and glib). Here's what I did:
1. I compiled and installed glib (to /usr/local/lib).
2. I compiled and installed GdkPixbuf (to /usr/local/lib).
3. I compiled and installed GTK+ to (to /usr/local/lib).
4. I copied libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2200.0 (or some very similar name) to /usr/lib and changed soft link /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 to reference to it.
5. After reboot desktop didn't start at all. So I changed the link /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 back to reference to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.0.
6. Then I could reboot and login successfully. Except that when I insert flash drive or cd it wasn't automatically mounted (as previously was). I installed gnome-volume-manager. It didn't help. When I tried to start it complained something like "failed to load libcanberra-gtk-module.so".
7. I found this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1290156 which suggested to change GTK_MODULES environment variable (to unset it). So I did - I changed it from "canberra-gtk-module" (or something similar) to an empty string.
8. After reboot my desktop environment couldn't fully load.
Can anyone give advice to fix the issue? Thanks in advance.
Here's what it looks like (see attachment).
I suspect this is connected with my upgrading GTK+ and the necessary dependencies (GdkPixbuf and glib). Here's what I did:
1. I compiled and installed glib (to /usr/local/lib).
2. I compiled and installed GdkPixbuf (to /usr/local/lib).
3. I compiled and installed GTK+ to (to /usr/local/lib).
4. I copied libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2200.0 (or some very similar name) to /usr/lib and changed soft link /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 to reference to it.
5. After reboot desktop didn't start at all. So I changed the link /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 back to reference to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.0.
6. Then I could reboot and login successfully. Except that when I insert flash drive or cd it wasn't automatically mounted (as previously was). I installed gnome-volume-manager. It didn't help. When I tried to start it complained something like "failed to load libcanberra-gtk-module.so".
7. I found this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1290156 which suggested to change GTK_MODULES environment variable (to unset it). So I did - I changed it from "canberra-gtk-module" (or something similar) to an empty string.
8. After reboot my desktop environment couldn't fully load.
Can anyone give advice to fix the issue? Thanks in advance.