On (14/07/06 12:39), Aenoch Lynn wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: Aenoch Lynn <aenoch.lynn@ucsf.edu> > Subject: Re: Firefox text display is misbehaving > > On 07/14/2006 09:36 AM John - wrote: > > Since yesterday's upgrade of firefox to 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.4-2, > > something's out of whack: only the first word on each line of text is > > displayed. ,,, > > Got suggestions? If so, thanks! > > > > I have this problem as well ... Steve Lamb solved this one, responding under the title "Re: [Etch] Text disappearing in Gnome." To wit: > Known, libcairo2. See this thread: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/07/msg00977.html Aptitude wouldn't undertake the fix without also removing a ton of other packages, but I had an older version in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I mustered up my nerve and did # dpkg -i libcairo2_1.0.4-2_i386.deb And now everything works again. Thanks, Steve. -- JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com ==================================================== PGP key 1024D/99421A63 2005-01-05 EE51 79E9 F244 D734 A012 1CEC 7813 9FE9 9942 1A63 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 99421A63
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