Quoting Ben Rosenberg
* Adam Leach (suse@ntlworld.com) [031107 12:18]:
Hi,
I've recently upgraded from SuSE 8.2 to 9.0 and after the update no Gnome application work. The menus are displayed, minus any text, any error messages don't display any text, etc.
Has anybody got any ideas as to the cause
The pango script is messed up. It doesn't create a modules file in /etc/opt/gnome/pango so you can do this...
/opt/gnome/bin/pango-querymodules > /etc/opt/gnome/pango/
This will create the files..
/etc/opt/gnome/pango/modules /etc/opt/gnome/pango/pango.modules /etc/opt/gnome/pango/pangox.aliases
These files are needed because pango is the font rendering engine for Gnome2.
It's a bug. Also, if you've got usr-local-bin.org packages installed you might want to make sure the 9.0 install replaced them with 9.0 packages. The 9.0 installer thought that some of the 8.2 ulb packages were newer then the pkgs on the CD's and didn't replace them. It's the usual SUSE Gnome clusterf**k. ;)
Thanks, just checked and found pango was a protected ulb package, so I've updated the package and it works. I can now stop using my WebMail and download the thousands of SuSE Linux emails I've received recently into Evolution. Just a quick tip don't bother about the installation support. Even though I explained the problem was only with Gnome applications the support person was persistent that the problem was related to KDE and told me to delete .kde* directories. Stupidly I listened and lost configuration options (didn't warn me about this) and of course the problem wasn't fixed. Thanks for the help Adam