Re: D-Bus error trying to run gaim AND how do i ensure better upgrades?
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 10:22:59 -0800, tom arnall wrote:
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> > > > 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
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> i had the initial problem with the dbus restart until i did it as root
That is normal; you need root privileges to start/stop system services.
> and
> indeed this put an end to the dbus error when i start gaim. but i've still
> got the libpangocairo error and gaim disappears when i try to use it. but i
> installed 'kopete' and it works well.
Create another normal user (with the adduser command) and test if that
user can start X and run gaim. If so then there is a problem in your
regular user's gaim configuration file. That can normally be fixed by
moving the config file out of the way to make gaim recreate the
configuration data from a safe template when it is run again.
If the gaim problem is the same for all users then it might help to
purge and reinstall gaim and gaim-data.
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Regards,
Florian
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