gaim and thunderbird not working

jp-lack · 07-27-2006, 11:49 PM

I broke my sistem and now I'm trying to fix it; however I'm having some issues with gaim and mozilla-thunderbird

Code:

root@zion:~# gaim

(gaim:4532): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules
were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means
there was an error in the creation of:
  '/home/blair/usr/lib/transgaming_point2play/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.

(gaim:4532): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
Aborted

any ideas?

thx

Mega Man X · 07-28-2006, 01:16 AM

I think the easiest way here is for you to make a reinstall. Backup your important files and start fresh. Also, do not ever run applications such as gaim as the root user. It's a huge security risk, especially when using programs that connects to the web. Use an ordinary user instead and whenever you need to do admin tasks, open a terminal and use the "su" command to become root temporarily.

If you had done that already, your system would probably not get ruined. The worst that could happen is for you to ruin your normal user. In that case, it would be easier to simple delete the user or remove the user config files...

Just a tip. Good luck though...

jp-lack · 07-28-2006, 01:32 AM

yeah I know that reinstall slacware would be easier.

I broke my system when I was playing with swaret. I did `swaret upgrate` and it broke everything; I tried to fix it with slackpkg but now I'm having problems now with several apps.

I guess I will have to backup everything and then reload the OS

thx

evilDagmar · 07-28-2006, 03:12 AM

Helpful tip: This time around, make /home it's own partition. If you have to do something like this again, you will at least not have to make a backup of your user account's files (and you can copy the important config files in there before you reinstall, and just reuse them).

introuble · 07-28-2006, 05:06 AM

Another Helpful Tip: Don't trust swaret. Don't trust slapt-get. Trust no-one. Wear a tinfoil hat.