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Problems installing Red Hat

Draco · 2002-04-18 11:10:37

I'm trying to install RH 7.2 on a machine. When it gets to the part where it checks for package dependances, it comes up with this about 6 or 7 times and then says to reboot: Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkwindow.c line 1233 (gdk_window_set_background): assertion 'window != null' failed. All google is telling me is that it's a…

18-04-2002 11:10AM

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Draco

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I'm trying to install RH 7.2 on a machine. When it gets to the part where it checks for package dependances, it comes up with this about 6 or 7 times and then says to reboot:

Gdk-CRITICAL **: file gdkwindow.c line 1233 (gdk_window_set_background): assertion 'window != null' failed.

All google is telling me is that it's a problem with GDK (I figured that out by myself) but nothing about why it would be happening during an install. Anybody and ideas? How would I go about getting a better error message?

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#2 18-04-2002 11:20AM

Draco

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Strangely the problem disappeared when I went into expert mode...and all I did then was say yes for everything. Gah.

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