> Thanks for the swift reply! Is this the FAQ item you mean? > > Q: As soon as I try to log on or change aMSN's language, it crashes > with the following message: X Error of failed request: BadValue? > (integer parameter out of range for operation), Major opcode of failed > request: 45 (X_OpenFont) > A: First of all, it may be a font problem: try making aMSN run with a > different font (under Tools -> Preferences -> Appearance). Second, you > may need to run aMSN from a different encoding (under Tools -> > Preferences -> Appearance again, utf-8 is a safe choice). If none of > the above works, make sure your locale (your LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE > environment variable) is installed on your system: set | grep LC_ , > and make sure the corresponding directories (after the = ) exist on > /usr/lib/locale . If they don't, install them according to your > distribution. > > > This seems to fit my problem except for one thing: The error does not > occur with all logins. That is, if I log in with user id > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I get the error, but if I login with userid > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) it works! The error described above should happed > for all users, shouldn't it? Or is it possible to specify fonts by > uer id?
Well, this is the version before my updates - check back. If it is just for one user, try selecting another font / encoding , it is indeed different for each user. But it could also be a system-wide problem. Let me explain: (Read on if you have time, otherwise, just keep that it might be a system-wide problem that only crashes for one user) Normally, when you are trying to display a special character (accented, Greek, Japanese, or whatever) but aMSN cannot display it, either because it has the wrong encoding or because the selected font doesn't know how to display this character, it should display a square. However, if something goes wrong, it crashes with the X_OpenFont message. Many things can go wrong, this is why the FAQ is talking about many possible solutions. Now, it is very likely that one user has contacts with special characters in their nickname and the other one doesn't. If this is the case, the problem might be system-wide, but it only crashes on the user with contacts that have special characters. An easy way to check is to go to the language selection dialog - it contains the names of all languages in the original writing, which means many alphabets. Hope it's not too confusing :) Vivia ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
