Pango assertion failed in Firefox. Cannot use the attach file link in Gmail. Also affects OpenOffice

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml%gmail.com@localhost>]

HI,

I am getting this error

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bash-4.1$ firefox
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
/usr/pkg/lib/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so [Shared object
"libdl.so.2" not found, required by "libflashplayer.so"]

(npviewer.bin:923): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon
'gnome-fs-home'. The 'hicolor' theme
was not found either, perhaps you need to install it.
You can get a copy from:
       http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases

(npviewer.bin:923): 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.

(npviewer.bin:923): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape:
assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed:
(glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPP_Destroy() wait for reply: Message timeout
*** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
WARNING:(/usr/pkgobj/bootstrap/work/pkgsrc/www/nspluginwrapper/work/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-wrapper.c:1854):invoke_NPP_Destroy:
assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
WARNING:(/usr/pkgobj/bootstrap/work/pkgsrc/www/nspluginwrapper/work/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-wrapper.c:1854):invoke_NPP_Destroy:
assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0x2dd84950 is no longer valid!
*** NSPlugin Wrapper ***
WARNING:(/usr/pkgobj/bootstrap/work/pkgsrc/www/nspluginwrapper/work/nspluginwrapper-1.2.2/src/npw-wrapper.c:1854):invoke_NPP_Destroy:
assertion failed: (rpc_method_invoke_possible(plugin->connection))
*** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: NPObject 0x2dd8bbd8 is no longer valid!

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in

 2.9-DEVELOPMENT DragonFly v2.9.1.91.g5502c-DEVELOPMENT #0: Wed Nov 24
15:46:40 IST 2010

for

firefox-3.6.12
p5-pango-1.221nb1   Perl bindings to the pango library
pango-1.28.1nb2     Library for layout and rendering of text

I guess this pango error is the reason why Open Office exits at start.

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bash-4.1$ soffice
sh: /dev/null: Permission denied
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!

(soffice.bin:992): 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.

(soffice.bin:992): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_engine_shape_shape:
assertion `PANGO_IS_FONT (font)' failed

Pango-ERROR **: file shape.c: line 75 (pango_shape): assertion failed:
(glyphs->num_glyphs > 0)
aborting...

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Firefox becomes slowafter this error. Flash also does not work after
the next error :-(

Some ideas on howto fix this would be great :-D

thanks

--Siju