Update: Re: GTK update problems

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Marty wrote:
> Frank McCormick wrote:
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> > Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK
> > update ?
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> This upgrade seems to have broken many packages.  In my case, 
> multi-gnome-terminal failed to start, leaving an error message in 
> .xsession-errors.  Apparently the same bug was reported here 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=%23461410
> and repeated here
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461415
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> The former link provides a workaround which worked for me:

Responding to my own posting, I just found out this is not a viable work-around. 
 It seems to breaks totem, which issues many copies of the following error message:

Xlib:  extension "MIT-SHM" missing on display ":0.0".

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:11:41 -0300, Anthony Donegan wrote:
>
>  > After security upgrade from 2:1.1.1-21etch1 to 2:1.1.1-21etch2 the program
>  > azureus (2.5.0.0+0-1) crashes with the following error message:
>  >
>  > The program 'SWT' received an X Window System error.
>  > This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>  > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>  >   (Details: serial 320 error_code 11 request_code 148 minor_code 5)
>  >   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>  >    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>  >    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>  >    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>  >    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
>  >
> Hi all,
>
> can you confirm that adding:
>
>          Section "Extensions"
>                  Option "MIT-SHM" "no"
>          EndSection
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> to your xorg.conf works around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Julien