Bug#658252: libcairo2: Text quickly becomes rectangles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today I have been able to test this a little more. I have tried building pidgin using the source from debian (apt-get source pidgin) and the resulting build has exactly the same problem. I have tried running pidgin as another user, under gnome instea

Bug#658252: libcairo2: Text quickly becomes rectangles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry, this keeps changing. The rectangles are back, so I suppose this is still a live issue. I haven't tried re-compiling pidgin yet since my latest round of updates. Any advice would be useful. At the moment some of the text is replaced with

Bug#658252: libcairo2: Text quickly becomes rectangles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Now I've updated more packages and restarted (without changing pidgin or building it again) and it is fully working, drawing all the text properly even in the error dialogue that didn't work last time. Perhaps it was a dependency problem? It does see

Bug#658252: libcairo2: Text quickly becomes rectangles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, I spoke too soon, my newly built pidgin's text is becoming rectangles again after a reboot. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8uNXsACgkQA

Bug#658252: libcairo2: Text quickly becomes rectangles

perhaps libcairo2 is not to blame, perhaps it is to do with build-essential? But then why did my previously built version of pidgin misbehave after the upgrade when it worked fine before? And why has bibletime stopped working? Thanks for your time! Andrew Rule -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version