Re: [SLE] Recent Gnome / GTK Update (?) Leads to Application Hangs?

Hi,

On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:19, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hello again,

On Saturday 03 June 2006 09:00, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,

I reported here a few days ago that whenever I launch Gnumeric it
hangs very early on, showing only a mostly blank window. ...

Now I've got the most disruptive manifestation of this symptom yet:
After updating with the newest kernel security patch via YOU I
cannot reconfigure VMware as needed when a new kernel is installed
(by running vmware-config.pl after kernel "make cloneconfig; make
prepare"). When I run vmware-config.pl, I see only this:

...

Odd. After the reboot with the new kernel, Gnumeric no longer hangs
on start-up. I guess it remains to be seen whether the hangs in
Mozilla are still occurring, since they're not as predictable as the
Gnumeric hang was. So maybe these are different symptoms after all.

I'm still stumped, however about the problem with the VMware
configuration script. Has anyone else running VMware on SuSE 10.0 who
has installed the latest kernel via YOU encountered this hang in
vmware-config.pl?


D'Oh! D'Oh! D'Oh!

Pardon me while I kick myself in the ass a few times ...

There.


I've done this before and I really should know better. In my compulsive
drive to keep records of all this sort of thing, I ran the VMware
configurator with its output piped to "tee log-file". So of course when
it comes time for it to ask me questions, I don't see the prompt
('cause, I suppose, there's no newline at the end of the prompt) and
think the program has hung.

This time the red herring of the line about "Configuring fallback GTK+
2.4 libraries." and my concern about the GTK applications hanging led
me to overlook the real problem.

Re-running the configurator without output redirection allowed
everything to proceed normally.


Sorry for the false alarm.


Randall Schulz

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