GTK apps all appear broken on ia64
I'm presuming this bug is something in the underlying gtk code,
because the following all hang on startup without displaying any
graphics:
gdm
gnome-terminal
gaim
xchat
gnome-session
strace doesn't show anything obviously relevant, leading me to believe
the problem is in library code. An instrumented gdm shows the hang
happening somewhere in gtk_init().
This only started when I dist-upgraded yesterday. I'm not sure which
packages are relevant here, but gtk+2.0 is 2.4.1-4 and libgnome2-0 is
2.6.1-2. In the interests of getting work done, I'd like to downgrade
back to GNOME 2.4, but it's such a huge maze of twisty dependencies,
all alike, that I'm not sure how to go about it. Suggestions are
welcome.
Also, see David Mosberger's post to debian-ia64 about this same
problem.
-=Eric
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