replies on msgs #7 & #15 re firefox/tbird troubles

[Brian Millett]

On 7/20/05, Mickey Stein <yekkim at pacbell.net> wrote:
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> >Message: 7
> >Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:21:53 -0500
> >From: Brian Millett <bmillett at gmail.com>
> >Subject: RE: Fedora Core 4 Test Update
> >To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> >Message-ID: <1121808113.27273.6.camel at localhost.localdomain>
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> >After todays test update of thunderbird & firefox, I have lost the text
> >for both.  All that shows up is the "_" under the menu items.  All text
> >in the display is also blank.  Had to fire up evolution to post this  :-(
> >Any idea where to look?
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> >I've rolled back a rev and that did not change anything.  Mozilla works
> >just fine.
> >
> >Thanks.
> >--
> >Brian Millett - [ Sinclair (re: the Minbari), "The Gathering"]
> >"We didn't stop them, they stopped themselves and I wish to hell I knew
> >why."
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> A number of us had this (almost identical) problem around 22-Jun-05.
> Check out the bugzilla entry here:
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161374 -
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> I don't think the 'cure' for 161374 was the exact solution, just one of
> a few possibles. At that time, we'd also (as this time) updated gtk2*
> which, if rolled back one version, would cause the text to become
> visible again. And I know that someone further down couldn't reproduce
> it this time, but I could reproduce it. I just moved along to deer-park
> which didn't have the bad interaction.  Anyway, the bug, which was
> "solved" by the next version of firefox, also was the period where the
> 'cairo' package was introduced as a dependency of gtk2 (at least I think
> that's what was going on).  There was more than one 'temporary' fix for
> the problem and you can see those in the bug.

Thanks!!  Bug 161374 needs to be reopened.  By editing both
/usr/bin/firefox & /usr/bin/thunderbird to uncomment the

MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO

got both to work.

thank you very much.