F9 - Weird GTK behavior

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 19:50:14 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:56 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
> > Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:07:49 -0700, Clifford Snow wrote:
> >>> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Common sense, please. It sounds like a grave bug. Even if you deal with
> >> "all of the hidden files", the file dialogue (or one of the components it
> >> depends on) must not crash. Try to ensure that none of your installed
> >> packages are damaged (examine "rpm -Va"), capture a full strack-trace [1]
> >> by running an application like gedit from within a terminal, and submit a
> >> bug report a bugzilla.redhat.com
> > 
> > Could it be that some updates to gtk stuff have come through, but you 
> > have yet to reboot ?
> > 
> 
> Are we talking about Linux or Windows?  What in GTK would require a 
> reboot?  I thought GTK was related to graphics, not the base OS.

You don't need to reboot. You do need to restart your desktop. The
easiest way is to log out and in again. If you want to also restart your
display manager (gdm or kdm) it's best to go to level 3 and then back to
5, i.e. from a console windows, as root, do "init 3; init 5".

poc




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