This is a slightly strange problem, but I hope someone can help. Yesterday, for no apparent reason, all the lights in my house went off for about half a second. When I checked my comp, it had reset itself. I logged back in, and everything seemed fine, but none of the programs I use which were compiled with gtk2 support will work anymore, and they all fail with a similar error, which I have no idea how to fix. Running gkrellm2 gives: ** (gkrellm2:4455): CRITICAL **: file pango-color.c: line 952 (pango_color_parse): assertion `spec != NULL' failed -:2: Invalid color constant '(null)' -:2: error: invalid string constant "#eee1b3", expected valid string constant Segmentation fault while gvim 6.2 with gtk2 support gives: ** (gvim:4458): CRITICAL **: file pango-color.c: line 952 (pango_color_parse): assertion `spec != NULL' failed -:2: Invalid color constant '(null)' -:2: error: invalid string constant "#eee1b3", expected valid string constant Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV Vim: Finished. Segmentation fault The same version of gvim works fine if I don't use gtk2, and all other non-gtk2 programs are still working fine. I've removed pango, atk, and gtk+ and installed them again, I've tried a couple of different versions of each, and I've recompiled the programs that don't work, but it doesn't seem to be making any difference. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? Andrew -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service