Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if I 
> run gaim as non-root, it takes a password and then disappears, leaving:
> 
> 	gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0:
> 		undefined symbol: cairo_scaled_font_get_f
> 
> In /usr/lib I find:
> 
> 	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    29 2006-10-28 10:57 libpangocairo-1.0.so -> \
> 		libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1400.7
> 	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    29 2006-10-28 10:57 libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 -> \
> 		libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1400.7
> 	-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29256 2006-10-13 11:30 \
> 		libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.1400.7
> 
> I ran pango-querymodules, and this helped some of the font problems in other 
> programs. I tried reinstalling libpango1.0-0. But no change with gaim run as 
> non-root. When I run gaim as root, it's fine, and there is no error message.

Did you already try to create a new user and check if this new user can
run gaim? There might be a problem with the gaim configuration data in
your regular user's $HOME.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian