Quote Originally Posted by Ferric.AU View Post
In fact, I was mistaken in my last post (forgot to restart Xserver) and reverting to libcairo2_1.10 DOES seem to fix the issue.

  1. download the appropriate .deb for libcairo2_1.10.2-7
    from here (ie for i386 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/d...0.2-7_i386.deb)
  2. sudo dpkg -i <the package>.deb
  3. sudo service knoppix-startx stop (stops Xserver and reverts to root at prompt)
  4. service knoppix-startx start

The downgrade breaks another package (libgtk2.0-cil), but otherwise seems fine after 1hr+ using iceweasel.

Good luck,

Brad
This did it for me too. I'm living with the single broken package and have not yet stumbled on a bug.