libgraphite caused all gtk+ and kde apps to segfault after upgrading karmic to lucid

[Xolotl Loki]

After upgrading karmic to lucid, I booted into a gdm screen with no login controls. I was able to switch virtual terminals, and exchanged gdm for xdm, which allowed me to log in graphically. However, all gtk+ apps would segfault on run, which left me with no window manager, panels, menus, or anything else.

I tried installing kubuntu-desktop, only to find that all kde apps were dying exactly the same way.

Most of the time, there was no dmesg or X log messages which said how everything was crashing, but one time I saw it logged in dmesg. All the segfaults were in libgraphite, from window manager to applications. I removed pango-graphite via aptitude, and suddenly everything started working again.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libgraphite3 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 1 20:58:19 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: silgraphite2.0

[dino99 (9d9)]

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago