Actually, I had the same problem, but after rebooting the system the problem was "gone." Paul Stucklen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke McCarthy" <lukem+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: Permission problem after updating pango, gnome-libs > Hi everybody, > > I'm running Fedora Core 1 and I use up2date to make sure all of my > packages remain current, with the exception that I don't update the > kernel unless it's absolutely necessary. The other day (9 February) > after I updated pango and pango-devel, none of the text in the gnome > menus, dialog boxes, etc. was displaying. The terminal and webpage text > were fine. In other words, just what you'd expect if there was some > problem in the internationalization library. It turns out that the new > RPM had installed /etc/pango/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules with > permissions of 0640, so none of my user programs nor gdm could actually > read it. After fixing the permissions, the problem went away. > > I had a similar problem after updating gnome-libs and gnome-libs-devel. > In this case, it was the entire tree below > /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnome-settings/ that had overly > strict permissions after I updated the RPM, resulting in an error when I > opened most gnome applications for the first time in a session. > > Since there hasn't been any chatter on the mailing list about these > problems, I assume that there is something about my particular setup > that's causing them. It has happened on all three of the machines that > I have running fedora. As stated, all packages are up to date save the > kernel (which is kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) If anyone has any idea what > the problem might be, or if there's any other information I can provide > that might help with a diagnosis, let me know. Thanks, > > Luke > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
