[Clfs-support] gtk+2 upgrade help

[Chris Staub]

On 12/26/2009 01:22 PM, Reimundo Heluani wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 21:35 -0800, Reimundo Heluani wrote:
>> Hello there, I upgraded from gtk+2.16.0 to 2.19.2 without using a
>> package manager (compiled, removed by hand the old libraries and
>> installed on top of the same prefix). Things went wrong at some point
>> but I'm not sure where. I get plenty of errors of the form
>>
>> ... does not export GTK+ IM module API .... invalid ELF header
>>
>> for example when running perl I'd get these errors. I can't recompile
>> either the previous version of gtk+2 cause of these errors and I can't
>> even compile 2.19.2 again because of these errors.
>>
>> Looking at my /usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders I see that the binaries
>> are the old ones, so I'm not sure why they didn't get overwritten by the
>> new ones (the libraries are all new). I'm not sure where did I screw
>> things up but I'd love to hear any help from you guys.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> R.
>>
>
> OK, now I'm really puzzled, I realized that my multiarch_wrapper was
> overwritten, so I recompiled it and now I don't get the errors of
> "invalid ELF header" etc... I have no clue how could this have happened,
> there's no point in the installation that I can think it would've been
> possible to mess up and overwrite the multiarch_wrapper. Anyhow, now I'm
> not sure how to test if gtk+ is working completely. I don't see any
> errors in any log, but gtk-query-immodules shows gtk+2.19.2 in its
> output, while gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders shows gtk+2.16.0. This is
> puzzling.
>
> R.
>
>>
Probably because you still have a few old files from the previous 
version laying around. The only sure way to fix this is to completely 
uninstall both versions, and reinstall the later version.