On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:49, Florian Kulzer wrote: > 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
is there an easy way to go back to stable from testing? the stuff i've seen on google so far is not encouraging in this regard. thanks, tom arnall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
