Do you have gdkxft (for gnome 1.4) installed? I was having similar problems - every gnome app crashing with undefined symbols, etc. It turned out that I needed to remove /usr/lib/libgdkxft.so.0 from LD_PRELOAD. After that, everything seemed to start fine. YMMV.
Mark On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 19:04, Nathan A. Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I can't start gnome. When I try to (from gdm) I get a message box > stating that gnome died less then 11 seconds in and reports the > following error: > > relocation error: /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: > FT_Get_First_Char > > This is the same error I get trying to start pan from a command line. I > don't get the error if I start from my root account. Since I haven't > seen anyone else report this -- I figure it must be me, but I would love > some help anyways. > > > Nasa > > > All packages are updated to the latest from cooker ftp site > > > -- Mark Logan Project Manager Visible Genetics Inc. Phone: (416)813-3240 x4133 Fax : (416)813-3249 Cell : (416)274-1559 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
