[NTLUG:Discuss] X 3.3.6 + Redhat 6.2 = Memory Prob

[Kevin Brannen]

lee at brave.com wrote:
> 
> $700!?!  Figuring out libraries?  Feh, that's too much work!  :-(

Unless I did C/C++ all the time for pay and therefore *really* needed
it, I agree that $700 is too much for that product; hence why I don't
already own it. :-)  As for the libraries, whether it's too much work
or not depends on how badly you want to solve the problem. :-)

> 
> I also noticed that GAIM crashes right after startup.  I'm installing
> the latest glib and gtk+ and see if that's the culprit.  Uhhh, I'm on
> the right track, right?

Seems like a reasonable approach.  If you have 1 app that consistently
crashes soon after startup, then I'd just get the source to that,
compile it for debugging (w/ "-g"), and run it in gdb.  Upon crashing,
issue the command "bt" to see the stack trace.  If you can't figure
out what's wrong, then copy-n-paste that output with other relevent
info and email it to the author of GAIM.

FWIW, I had an app that kept mysteriously dying on me last night.  I
did an "ldd" on it to see what dynamic libs it was pulling in, and
found that it got some libs from /lib (the current stuff, including
libc.so.6) AND libc.so.5, plus other gtk/gnome libs from the older
lib5 dir.  Upon mv'ing the older lib5 gtk/gnome to an ".../old" dir so
they couldn't be found and forcing it to get the newer stuff, my app
started working correctly.  The moral being, check your
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH for old lib dirs, and old libs sitting in various
dirs you do need.  [This is probably the easiest thing you could
check.]

Kevin