Re: [Gramps-users] GRAMPS fails after latest update

[Graham P D. <his...@sc...>]

On Wednesday 19 March 2008 09:44:59 Benny Malengier wrote:
> This looks like a python bug to me.
>
> Do the following in a terminal:
> python
>
> >>> import gtk.gdk
>
> Does it work?

Afraid not.

The output from Python is much as before  - 
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 10 2008, 18:01:57)
[GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gtk.gdk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 48, in 
<module>
    from gtk import _gtk
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_gtk.so: undefined 
symbol: pyg_gerror_exception_check


> If not, you should contact whoever is responsible for the python update
> happening when you upgraded gramps. Going from 2.2.8 to 2.2.10 does not
> need extra python stuff.
>
> I do have to say that SUSE used to have a problem in gtk causing errors in
> GRAMPS, see
> See eg: http://www.nabble.com/%22bug-report%22-to13810645.html#a13810645
> and the followup. So perhaps they tried to solve that, but it is not
> installed ok on your system.
>

I'll follow your advice and let you know of my progress. 

Thanks,

Graham