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.)
--
Regards,
Florian
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