RE: gtk-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4

["Vlietstra, Joe (NSSD)" <Joe Vlietstra ngc com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 14:28:38 -0700
> From: "Hudson T. Clark" <hudson clark verizon net>
> Subject: Big problem now Michael Torrie >_0
> To: <gtk-list gnome org>
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> 
> Ok well I picked the advice that resulted in replacing my older
> version of glib with the newer one... everything seemed to go fine 
> until I started fooling around with pango! Now I used removepkg
> on the old pango and installed the new pango (using -prefix=/usr
> to make sure, I don't know if that was  good idea or not). Now
> gnome is crashing with the error:
>  
> Gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries:
> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file or directory

libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 is usually a symbolic link that's part of the
dynamic library lookup (dlopen) for the Pango freetype backend
library.  A typical set of symbolic links:
   libpangoft2-1.0.so -> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.600.0
   libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 -> libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.600.0
Where (in this example) libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.600.0 is the specific
version of the library.  A Pango application will dlopen with
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.

Do an 'ls -l' in /usr/lib and see what's there.
Is there a copy of libpangoft2-1.0.so.0.XXX.0 there?
   If not, check if Pango found freetype during configuration.
   I believe a relatively new version of freetype is required since
   the Pango freetype backend now does rotated text.
   (I'm guessing this is your problem.)

   If so, compare API version number (XXX) with version number
   of libpango-1.0.so.0.YYY.0 to ensure there are the same.

Joe Vl