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mikhailway
3rd January 2007, 05:29 PM
Running FC5 with the latest (as of today) native NVidia driver.
When I log in as a normal user and startx all of my fonts show up as squares
(not a single normal character is displayed), which appears to be an issue with Pango
as I get Pango-WARNING and Pango-CRITICAL errors all over the place when I "startx >& /tmp/logX"
in the output file (but curiously NOT in the /var/log/Xorg.log).

When I log in as root and startx as above none of these problems
occur. Any ideas why Pango is friendly under root and
not under a non-root user? It must be permissions somewhere,
but hell if I can find out where!

Thanks,
mike

mikhailway
3rd January 2007, 08:52 PM
quick fix was chmod -R 777 /etc/pango and /usr/lib/pango