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. tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]