Permission problem after updating pango, gnome-libs

[stucklenp]

Actually, I had the same problem, but after rebooting the system the problem
was "gone."

Paul Stucklen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luke McCarthy" <lukem+fedora at virtuouspagans.org>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: Permission problem after updating pango, gnome-libs


> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm running Fedora Core 1 and I use up2date to make sure all of my
> packages remain current, with the exception that I don't update the
> kernel unless it's absolutely necessary.  The other day (9 February)
> after I updated pango and pango-devel, none of the text in the gnome
> menus, dialog boxes, etc. was displaying.  The terminal and webpage text
> were fine.  In other words, just what you'd expect if there was some
> problem in the internationalization library.  It turns out that the new
> RPM had installed /etc/pango/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/pango.modules with
> permissions of 0640, so none of my user programs nor gdm could actually
> read it.  After fixing the permissions, the problem went away.
>
> I had a similar problem after updating gnome-libs and gnome-libs-devel.
> In this case, it was the entire tree below
> /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnome-settings/ that had overly
> strict permissions after I updated the RPM, resulting in an error when I
> opened most gnome applications for the first time in a session.
>
> Since there hasn't been any chatter on the mailing list about these
> problems, I assume that there is something about my particular setup
> that's causing them.  It has happened on all three of the machines that
> I have running fedora.  As stated, all packages are up to date save the
> kernel (which is kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)  If anyone has any idea what
> the problem might be, or if there's any other information I can provide
> that might help with a diagnosis, let me know.  Thanks,
>
> Luke
>
>
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