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Date:      Sun, 14 Jul 2002 02:26:56 +0300 (IDT)
From:      ezislis <kesor@mail.ru>
To:        Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Cc:        George <jirka@5z.com>, <gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: GDM 2.4.0.x & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20020714022457.D40369-100000@finone.ulp.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <1026601590.8748.121.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>

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On 13 Jul 2002, Joe Kelsey wrote:

> Every other problem I have experienced with gnome2 has been traceable to
> font issues.  Try doing an ldd on gnome-session and see if you have any
> funny issues with respect to shared libraries.  I found an old version
> of freetype2 that somehow got linked before the new version and so there
> were two conflicting versions of freetype2 linked into gnome-session
> causing it to core dump.  In dealing with all of the gnome2 issues, I
> have found that the only way to make sure is to carefully look at all
> libraries and executables to make sure nothing is going on with shared
> library issues, such as the pango libc thing or my freetype thing with
> gnome-session.
>
> Of course, all of these shared library issues would evaporate if ld-elf
> was not so literal about libraries...

yeah, the backtraces always end up in freetype library somewhere.

But how exactly would I see that all the library versions are in order?

for example, something like :
> ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/lib* | grep freetype
returns different hexes at each line, is that okay or it indicates different versions?


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