Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:52, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:41:51 -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > On Monday 30 October 2006 13:16, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I set up a new acc't and got the following trying to run gaim:
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> > (gaim:7377): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_get_name: assertion \
> > `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
> > ** (gaim:7377): WARNING **: cannot open display: unset
> >
> >
> > the appl' never started.
>
> Did you start X as the new user before you tried this? The first Xlib
> error suggests that your user (at that moment) did not have
> authorization to access the X display. This would be a completely
> different thing than your previous problem. (I am not sure about the
> significance of the "No protocol specified" message, though.)
>
Florian,
I fixed the problem by copying the .gaim directory from root to my directory.
The problem was as you suggested: corrupted config' file. Thanks very much
for your help in this.
tom arnall
north spit, ca
usa
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