Re: 'Applications -> Preferences -> Font' not working.

[Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz>]

See below.

> Tux:~# gnome-font-properties
> gnome-font-properties: error while loading shared libraries:
> libmetacity-private.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> Tux:~# gnome-sound-properties
> gnome-sound-properties: error while loading shared libraries:
> libmetacity-private.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> Tux:~# gnome-theme-properties
> bash: gnome-theme-properties: command not found
> Tux:~# find -name gnome-theme-manager -print
> Tux:~# cd /
> Tux:/# find -name gnome-theme-manager -print
> ./usr/bin/gnome-theme-manager
> find: ./proc/3746/task: No such file or directory
> find: ./proc/4633/task: No such file or directory
> Tux:/#
Also, in trying mplayer (working yesterday) I now get

> alsa-init: requested format: 16000 Hz, 2
> channels, Signed 16-bit (Little-Endian)alsa-init: no soundcards found:
> Success
> AO: [arts] loading the aRts backend "/usr/lib/libartscbackend.la" failed
> AO: [esd] esd_open_sound failed: No such file or directory
>   
... possibly unrelated.

I might try 'apt-get remove metacity' and switch to testing 
(I usually find it a bit boring ...)

Adam Bogacki,
afb@paradise.net.nz

Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:10:25PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> > When I click 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font' on the top left 
> > of the top panel a small square appears on the bottom left of the
> > bottom panel saying
> >
> > 'Aa Starting Font'
> >
> > ... sits there for a while ... then disappears. Previously a font config 
> > panel would open up in the center of the screen allowing me to adjust
> > font size and/or select another font.
> >   
> Try running gnome-font-properties in a GNOME terminal and see whether
> you get some error messages you can relate to us.
>  
> > The same occurs for 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Themes' and
> > 'Applications->Desktop Preferences-> Sound'. The last is not so
> > important since the ALSA sound modules in 2.6.5 kicked in.
> >   
> That would be gnome-theme-manager and gnome-sound-properties.
>  
> > > > I recently did a number of 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing" [...]
> > > >       
> > > Were any packages inadvertently removed by the "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
> > >
> > >     
> > Not that I am aware of.
> >
> > > Was there a reason you were performing the dist-upgrade?
> > >
> > >     
> > I had upgraded to kernel 2.6.5 but on second dist-upgrade I could not
> > get past a 'Kernel Panic'. I got past this via mkinitrd and tried to fix
> > any problems via 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing'.
> >   
> You should not run dist-upgrade in general, that can lead to bad
> effects. Run apt-get upgrade all the time and if packages are being kept
> back, run apt-get dist-upgrade afterwards and have a close look at what
> APT wants to do.
>
> What Debian distribution are you running anyway? testing?
>
>
> Michael