On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 11:17:09PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > > You asked if going to 2.6 would cause a problem for them, and they > > indicated it would. > > No, they didn't. They said that they have had problems updating gtk+ > in the past. So far noone has expressed any actual problems updating > glib and gtk+ to version 2.6. To get some details into the game - a while ago (just after 2.2 was released), I tried upgrading to 2.6 (I thought that 2.6 was required, but this doesn't matter here). I ended up with a system where - gdm crashed (I was unable to get any useful error message - logging seems to be broken with regard to this, strace did not help) - GIMP 2.2 crashed almost every time I opened the file selector with some strange pango message showing up (some assertion failed) - it seems that font handling has somehow changed (I did compile a new pango, but not a new freetype) I found an obscure way to prevent this crash, but I cannot remember anymore - it was not really stable either. - OpenOffice stopped working with some unresolved symbol _XineramaIsActive I straced a lot but got no real conclusion (apart from that the new file selector opens a lot of files which probably kills performance on networked file systems). I can give it a try tomorrow and see whether I get some useful error messages. (My earlier message to this list describing my problems has somehow been ignored, there might be some details in there.) Bye, Tino.
