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jceasless

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Registered: 2009-04-20

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[Solved] System-wide upgrade leads to GTK segfaults

I just ran a 'pacman -Syu' this morning and am having similar problems. I've
   tried rolling gtk2, glibc, gcc, xulrunner, firefox (and others) back to their
   previous versions. No luck. I've switched mirrors and reinstalled the new
   versions as well.
   Anyone else seeing anything like this?
   nitrogen won't run, firefox won't run, gimp won't run. gtk-demo won't even
   run... weirdly, gvim was also segfaulting but now it runs fine.
I'm on i686.
(I posted this originally in another thread, but thought it might deserve its own topic..)

Last edited by jceasless (2010-01-04 11:49:28)

jceasless

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Re: [Solved] System-wide upgrade leads to GTK segfaults

Guess I'm the lone failer here, but in case it piques anyone's curiousity, here is a relevant error from /var/log/kernel.log:

nitrogen[3406]: segfault at b7859004 ip b72c7be5 sp bff9cff0 error 4 in libgio-2.0.so.0.2200.3[b7250000+8e000]

In further mystery, future segfaults do not appear in /var/log/kernel.log. For instance, if I run Firefox and watch it segfault, no record of it appears in kernel.log.

I've tried re-installing glib2 from the official Arch repo, to no avail. This at least explains why gtk1 apps are generally working, such as xchat and gvim.

R00KIE

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Re: [Solved] System-wide upgrade leads to GTK segfaults

Go here https://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/mirrorcheck.html pick a mirror near you that is up to date and try 'pacman -Syyu'.

Everything works fine here (but I'm on x86-64).

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jceasless

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Re: [Solved] System-wide upgrade leads to GTK segfaults

Hey R00KIE,

thanks for the tip. I can't find any documentation for what adding a second 'y' switch to the pacman invocation is supposed to accomplish (so assuming its a typo), but running your suggestion does not fix anything.

Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, downgrading to the working versions of xorg, etc did not work either.

Last edited by jceasless (2010-01-02 10:18:17)

jceasless

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Re: [Solved] System-wide upgrade leads to GTK segfaults

Soleved by reinstall.

Given no one else seeing this problem, maybe it was a bad PKGBUILD from AUR. I'll be more careful in the future.

jceasless

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Re: [Solved] System-wide upgrade leads to GTK segfaults

Oh, and also something I've found in the process:

No Reason to run nitrogen ever. feh does it all, better. and cheaper.