startx will not bring up xwindows because of Pango errors

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3

Situation

When running startx the following error comes up.

(gnome_segv:4263): 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/opt/gnome/pango/pango.modules'

You may be able to recreate this file by running pango-querymodules.

However, running pango-querymodules produces a screen full of output and pango errors.

When pango-querymodules is run, the screen is filled with pango information and errors.

Resolution

The problem is that the pango.modules file needs to be written. pango-querymodules is producing the right output to create that file, however the output of the pango-querymodules is ending up on the terminal screen instead of in the file.

The output of pango-querymodules needed to be re-directed to the file.

We used the following command to create the file:

pango-querymodules > /etc/opt/gnome/pango.modules

This created the file and startx worked on the next re-try.

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