[Fink-users] More on the Nicotine/python2.3 bus error --- this is driving me nutso

[Aron Trauring]

I installed the Nicotine.app, which wraps all the fink stuff into a 
package, and that crashed in the exact same way. Then looking through my 
logs from a long time ago,  I remembered that I had this same problem 
with nicotine when I first installed it. I solved it THEN by changing 
the libfreetype.6.dylib and libfreetype.dylib soft links to point to the 
libraries in /sw/lib instead of Apple's /usr/X11R6/lib versions (which 
are 6.3 as oppossed to Fink's 6.3.2).

Not too long ago, Gnucash started crashing also in freetype. So I 
changed the softlinks BACK to Apple's version of these libraries. Low 
and behold, Gnucash started working and Nicotine didn't have any 
problems. So, just now I switched the libraries to point back to the 
Fink version, and the Nicotine bus error went away. And Gnucash works. 
And so does the Nicotine.app.

Something is seriously foobar here though. It is true that there was an 
update to Gnucash Jan 1, but I ran Nicotine after that. What mysterious 
system change required me to flip those freetype softlinks? Having the 
X11 soft links point to the fink directories seems like a very bad idea 
to me. What is the underlying cause of this mess and how can it be 
straightened out?

TIA
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