gnome2 running issues

[Derrick Ryalls]

> On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 22:26, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> > Okay, I have gnome compiled and running and for the most 
> part, things 
> > seem to function okay.  However, on startup, there are 
> several dialogs 
> > telling me it cannot load certain applets (clock, tasklist, etc).  
> > They all reference the same missing file of:
> > 
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/libgen_util_applet-2.so
> > 
> > and what I have in that directory is libgen_util_applet-2.a.
> > 
> > Is it just a matter of finding that .so file and dropping 
> it in (doubt 
> > it), or did a dependancy fail and somehow everything 
> finished without 
> > error msgs?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Also, has anyone gotten /usr/ports/mail/evolution to work 
> with current 
> > /usr/ports/x11/gnome2?  Anytime I start it is fails out, the first 
> > failure being it can't find libgnome.so.  I double checked, and 
> > evolution 1.4 is supposed to be gnome2 complaint, so I am 
> not sure why 
> > it would be looking for gnome1 .so's.
> 
> Looks like you have quite a few missing libraries. 
> libgen_util_applet-2.so comes as part of x11/gnomepanel.  Evo 
> is a GNOME 2 app, and should depend at all on libgnome.so, 
> but rather libgnome-2.so.  You might want to reinstal 
> x11/libgnome, then reinstall Evo.
> 

Recompiling the gnomepanel fixed the startup error for gnome, thanks.

Evo is still looking for libgnome.so and I still have just libgnome-2.so
and libgnome.a so it will only do a splash screen then crash.



> Joe
> 
> > 
> > System info:
> > 
> > FreeBSD homer 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0 evolution-1.4.0_1
> > gnome2-2.2.1_1
> > 
> > -Derrick
> > 
> >