[PLUG] Insight Needed from Professional Coders

[Rich Shepard]

   Yesterday I tried to finesse an annoying gtk+2 bug that displays the
calendar incorrectly in jpilot. This problem appears with the version of
gtk+2 I had installed, but not with earlier ones.

   So, I spent ... er, wasted, too much time trying to build the latest
gtk+2. That involved building upgrades of atk, pango, and cairo, too. To
make a long story short, I could not build pango with cairo, and gtk wants
that. Also, there are apparently serious bugs in gtk+2-2.10.1 so I really
didn't want to try that for my calendar display problem in any case.

   The result is that my system was FUBAR this morning. I got X11 running
again, and also fixed the problem that kept gnucash from loading and
running. But, my mission-critical jpilot is still AWOL. When I try to invoke
it from the command line I see:

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ jpilot
removing stale pidfile
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0810b2e8 ***
Aborted

   To which I respond, "huh?" Of course glibc is present, and it's the same
one that's been here since the distribution upgrade. I also re-installed
jpilot from the original (freshly downloaded) package, but that didn't
change the situation.

   I don't understand what the error message is telling me. There's nothing
in /var/log/messages. I cannot find where the pidfile was.

   Your collective wisdom and focused insight is greatly appreciated in
helping me get this application running again.

TIA,

Rich

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