On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 16:19:57 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > i did an upgrade of my testing system recently and afterwards have found a > nubmer of problems on my system. the most recent is that i can't run gaim > properly. when i try to, the screen appears momentarily and then goes away, > leaving the folowing error message in the console. > > > D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read > machine uuid: Failed to open "/var/lib/dbus/machine-id": No such > file or directory > See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue. > Continuing with a bogus made-up machine UUID, which may cause > problems.gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0:\ > undefined symbol: cairo_scaled_font_get_font_options > > i had some problems earlier with gaim and dealt with them by copying the > config file from the root user to my user's directory, but the D-Bus error is > new and started when i reinstalled gaim to deal with some other problems. > > What is the D-Bus error about?
Maybe dbus is not running. What happens if you try /etc/init.d/dbus start or /etc/init.d/dbus restart ? > Also, how can i lessen my chances of breaking things when i upgrade. (i have > both testing and stable addresses in my sources.list file) Install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges or stay with stable. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]