(fedora) Firefox will not start after pango update (x86_64, firefox 32 bit)

[Alfredo Ferrari]

Thanks

it worked!

         Alfredo

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:

> Alfredo wrote on 13-OCT-2006 07:22:12.84
>
>> after the update of pango to 1.12.4-3, firefox is refusing to start on
>> a x86_64 system with the i386 version of firefox (the only one
>> installed for the usual plugin, java etc etc reasons).
>> Please note that both the i386 and x86_64 versions of pango are installed
>> on this machine (and they were before) because firefox and other
>> applications require the 32 bit one as well.
>>
>> The error message claims that /etc/pango/pango.modules is probably
>> missing. These file(s) are actually there inside
>>
>> /etc/pango/i686-redhat-linux-gnu/ and /etc/pango/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/
>>
>> while in the previous version they were inside
>>
>> /etc/pango/i386-redhat-linux-gnu/ and /etc/pango/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/
>>
>> rolling back to 1.2.3-1 (only for the i386 version) is enough to fix
>> things (at least for firefox, I have yet to test other apps).
>>
>> Is there anything badly botched with this pango update (at least on
>> x86_64 systems, my 32 bit laptop has no issue)?
> chmod 0644 pango.modules probably helps. See a discussion on:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=210442
>
>                               Jouk
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