[techtalk] gnome fixed

[stephanie1200 at netscape.net]

Crisis averted.

when i went to recompile gtk, I deleted old references to old copies that i had tried and failed to compile before.  I accidentally deleted a library file that /usr/bin/gnome-session wanted. When i ran just that at the command line, it complained about a missing libgtk-1.2.so.0, but I wasn't sure where it was looking.  So I said

strace -o ~/gnome-dead /usr/bin/gnome-session

and looking at that output file saw the different places it was looking for the file.  I saw that one of the places it was looking was /usr/lib, and sure enough, no libgtk.

so i did this:

ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0

which symlinked from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (missing file) to /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (itself a symlink to libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1).

I know this is lots of clinical detail, but i wanted to make sure it would be newbie-friendly and accessible by a search engine. 

stephanie1200 at netscape.net wrote:
>
> erm, I recompiled glib and gtk, and after I deleted some gtk files my ability to get a gnome session went away.  finally got the stupid thing to compile, and still, no dice!  Um, i'm clueless here.  nothing in /var/log/messages, grepping through for any suspicious errors now...
> 
> can anyone point me in a direction?  please don't tell me i have to re-install gnome...
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