On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 00:48, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > What were your last actions before this situation occured? Some more > information would be helpful. Are you running KDE or Gnome? If you > create a new user account and login with it, does that work? I got this. It happened after a full update with Synaptic/Apt get. Turns out that it's a bug with a newer version of Pango not setting permissions properly on a file somewhere. Can't remember where though. But by the time a response came around I'd already re-installed. Adam