pango failure

[Frank Steinborn]

Brandon Fosdick wrote:
> Does pango ever work right? It fails every time I upgrade it. This time I even tried deleting all 
> ports first and then installing things by hand (w/o portinstall or portupgrade). Anybody willing to 
> share the magic required to make this work? I'm getting really frustrated with having to deal with 
> this every time I do an upgrade.
> 
> To reproduce...
> Recent install of stable, fresh ports tree...install gkrellm or gaim, and then run gkrellm or gaim 
> to see the infinite scrolling text...
> 
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-WARNING **: Cannot open 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so"
> Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-WARNING **: Cannot open 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so"
> Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-WARNING **: Cannot open 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/pango/1.4.0/modules/pango-basic-fc.so"
> Failed to load Pango module for id: 'BasicScriptEngineFc'
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed
> 
> (gkrellm:64694): Pango-CRITICAL **: pango_cairo_show_glyph_string: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT 
> (font)' failed

Well, is gkrellm or gaim running? I'd guess that pango just has some
debug-options per default, that makes things more noisy than needed. I
ask because I couldn't get any problems from your question (or please be
more verbose).

Frank