This time Ken Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
becomes daring and writes:

> On Monday 13 January 2003 07:25 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote:
>> > ==========================================
>> > [ken@spooky ken]$ licq
>> > 20:43:59: [WRN] Licq: Ignoring stale lockfile (pid 5754)
>> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
>> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
>> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
>> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
>> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
>> > fcntl: Bad file descriptor
>>
>> "bad file descriptor"... :o?
>>
>> did you format your /home partition when
>> reinstalling your system? If not, try rm -rf ~/.licq
> Hmmmmm, well, I *think I did* but I did have another partition mounted under 
> home too..
>> Also, if you go get the newest Licq, do not
>> download a precompiled package, download the
>> source and built it.
> OK, I'll give this a try and see what goes.
>> HTH
>>
>> Damian

   The problem (as discussed on cooker@) is a texstar package or some
   other non-mdk package putting a version of libXft.so in your box
   that shouldn't be there...get rid of it and it will all work.

   Vox

-- 
Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs.  Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
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