Pango Problems?

[Lunarian Moogle]

Hey. I'm running Debian Linux on a G3 iMac. Recently, in an attempt to get some software installed, I mucked around a bit with the unstable branch of apt. Ever since then, I've been unable to start any graphical program (excepting aterm). When I try, I get the following error:


Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules
were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means
there was an error in the creation of:
'/etc/pango/pango.modules'
You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.

Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape: assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed: (glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
I checked in dselect and all pango related packages seem to be installed, so I can't seem to find the problem. When I try and run pango-query the command is not found, and apt returns nothing for installing pango-query. Any ideas? (sorry if this is formatted badly, I'm posting from lynx.)

[je_fro]

You can try "locate pango-querymodules" to find it, or perhaps just make an empty file with "touch /etc/pango/pango.modules".
In any case, here's my /etc/pango/i686-pc-linux-gnu/pango.modules:
# Pango Modules file
# Automatically generated file, do not edit
#
# ModulesPath = /usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules
#
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-arabic-fc.so ArabicScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc arabic:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-thai-fc.so ThaiScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc thai:* lao:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-basic-x.so BasicScriptEngineX PangoEngineShape PangoRenderX common:
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-syriac-fc.so SyriacScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc syriac:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-hangul-fc.so HangulScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc hangul:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so BasicScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc armenian:* bopomofo:* cherokee:* coptic:* cyrillic:* deseret:* ethiopic:* georgian:* gothic:* g reek:* han:* hiragana:* katakana:* latin:* ogham:* old-italic:* runic:* canadian-aboriginal:* yi:* braille:* cypriot:* limbu:* osmanya:* shavian:* linear-b:* ugaritic:* glagolitic:* cuneiform:* p hoenician:* common:
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so devaScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc devanagari:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so bengScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc bengali:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so guruScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc gurmukhi:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so gujrScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc gujarati:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so oryaScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc oriya:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so tamlScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc tamil:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so teluScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc telugu:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so kndaScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc kannada:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so mlymScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc malayalam:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-fc.so sinhScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc sinhala:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-tibetan-fc.so TibetanScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc tibetan:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-hebrew-fc.so HebrewScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc hebrew:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-khmer-fc.so KhmerScriptEngineFc PangoEngineShape PangoRenderFc khmer:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-lang.so devaIndicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone devanagari:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-indic-lang.so sinhIndicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone sinhala:*
/usr/lib32/pango/1.5.0/modules/pango-arabic-lang.so ArabicScriptEngineLang PangoEngineLang PangoRenderNone arabic:*

[dkeav]

have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling pango with apt?

[Lunarian Moogle]

Alright, I uninstalled and reinstalled pango (as well as all of the applications that required it), but still the same error. I was about to try using your pango.modules file, when I realized all your file was doing was pointing to modules in /usr/lib/pango. I did a quick look on my system, and I have no files under /usr/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules (though that directory does exist).
Any ideas on how to fix this?