Re: Reinstall Gnome (RESOLVED)

[John Jason Jordan <johnxj comcast net>]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:51:33 -0700 (PDT)
Marco Rossi <d_rwx yahoo it> dijo:

> I think it's not a problem of Gnome.
> I believe that is a problem of libraries (or link) just as JD said.

Everything is working perfectly again. 

Turns out the felon in this case was a utility called pango-graphite
from the Summer Institute of Linguistics. Supposedly pango-graphite
enables stacking of combining diactrics on characters, in addition to
other features useful to linguists. However, it is clear that
pango-graphite is not compatible with Gnome on Jaunty x86_64. Having
convicted pango-graphite, it is in jail now, never to be allowed to
live on my computer until it can be proved that it has reformed its
behavior.