Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?

[tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:49, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote:
> > i did an upgrade of my testing system recently and afterwards have found
> > a nubmer of problems on my system. the most recent is that i can't run
> > gaim properly. when i try to, the screen appears momentarily and then
> > goes away, leaving the folowing error message in the console.
> >
> >
> >    D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read
> >    machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such
> >    file or directory
> >    See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
> >    Continuing with a bogus made-up machine UUID, which may cause
> >    problems.gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0:\
> >    undefined symbol: cairo_scaled_font_get_font_options
> >
> > i had some problems earlier with gaim and dealt with them by copying the
> > config file from the root user to my user's directory, but the D-Bus
> > error is new and started when i reinstalled gaim to deal with some other
> > problems.
> >
> > What is the D-Bus error about?
>
> Maybe dbus is not running. What happens if you try
>
> /etc/init.d/dbus start
>
> or
>
> /etc/init.d/dbus restart
>
> ?
>
> > Also, how can i lessen my chances of breaking things when i upgrade. (i
> > have both testing and stable addresses in my sources.list file)
>
> Install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges or stay with stable.
>
> --
> Regards,
>           Florian



is there an easy way to go back to stable from testing? the stuff i've seen on 
google so far is not encouraging in this regard.

thanks,

tom arnall