No text display in Gnome and Gnome apps like Evolution
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 Adam - http://www.ask-adders.com
Adam Leach:
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
Adam - http://www.ask-adders.com
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Yes I had this in 8.2 some time ago. I don't remember what I did, but I think I have changed theme. ain
* 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. ;) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
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
Actually, a coworker's machine just did this on 8.2 after a YOU update. Quite strange. What's the path for the file to fix on 8.2? On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:27, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
* 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. ;)
-- Ben Rosenberg ---===--- #147972 ---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking. -- Greg Macek | Senior IT Manager Marketing Resources, Inc.
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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.
Sounds like a problem with Pango, no doubt a result of the change in prefix for it (and the other GTK+ related libraries) between 8.2 and 9.0. Make sure you have the SUSE supplied versions of glib2 atk and pango and either the SUSE or ULB gtk2 installed, then run SuSEconfig (if you do the install using YaST - it'll run SuSEconfig for you) -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org
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