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



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