Crisis averted.
when i went to recompile gtk, I deleted old references to old copies that i had tried
and failed to compile before. I accidentally deleted a library file that
/usr/bin/gnome-session wanted. When i ran just that at the command line, it complained
about a missing libgtk-1.2.so.0, but I wasn't sure where it was looking. So I said
strace -o ~/gnome-dead /usr/bin/gnome-session
and looking at that output file saw the different places it was looking for the file.
I saw that one of the places it was looking was /usr/lib, and sure enough, no libgtk.
so i did this:
ln -s /usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 libgtk-1.2.so.0
which symlinked from /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (missing file) to
/usr/local/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (itself a symlink to libgtk-1.2.so.0.9.1).
I know this is lots of clinical detail, but i wanted to make sure it would be
newbie-friendly and accessible by a search engine.
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> erm, I recompiled glib and gtk, and after I deleted some gtk files my ability to get
>a gnome session went away. finally got the stupid thing to compile, and still, no
>dice! Um, i'm clueless here. nothing in /var/log/messages, grepping through for any
>suspicious errors now...
>
> can anyone point me in a direction? please don't tell me i have to re-install
>gnome...
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