GNOME 3.0 requires the latest libnotify 0.7 which is *NOT* API-backwards compatible: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-November/144914.html The required upgrade to libnotify-0.7 will break some packages, particularly xfce-notifyd and system-config-printer. There may be other packages as well. You can either remove these package, or if you want to get them working, you will need install our libnotify-solibs package which simply repackages the official Slackware libnotify usr/lib*/libnotify.so.* into your /usr/lib so that these applications can continue to run.