From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 12: 8:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CC0C37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:08:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1762E43FCB for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:08:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1EK7JRA069595; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:07:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Mark Edwards Cc: stan , questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Id0jWBkV+3R0nBH4PjqL" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1045253280.2544.68.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Date: 14 Feb 2003 15:08:01 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,MIME_LONG_LINE_QP,NOSPAM_INC,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01, TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY version=2.44 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-Id0jWBkV+3R0nBH4PjqL Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:58, Mark Edwards wrote: > On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:21 AM, stan wrote: >=20 > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:46:47AM -0800, Mark Edwards wrote: > >> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:03, Mark Edwards wrote: > >>>>>> I've fixed my XFree86 install, and I have 4.2.1 running. All of=20 > >>>>>> the > >>>>>> ports mentioned above are installed. I am able to run xf86cfg > >>>>>> graphically and configure, and I can run X using startx, which=20 > >>>>>> loads > >>>>>> fine. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> However, when I do: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> sudo /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I get: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Feb 13 01:28:56 lilbuddy gdm[15381]: Failed to start the display > >>>>>> server > >>>>>> several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 > >>>>> > >>>>> I would need to see the X log to know if it's a gdm problem. > >>>>> However, > >>>>> I've never tried starting gdm under sudo. > >>>> > >>>> Well, the same behavior occurs if I just restart the machine and let > >>>> the script be triggered normally, so I doubt that sudo has anything=20 > >>>> to > >>>> do with it. Also, I successfully started gdm many times this way > >>>> under > >>>> gnome 2.0. > >>>> > >>>> I have posted /var/log/:0.log and var/log/XFree86.0.log here: > >>>> > >>>> http://mark.antsclimbtree.com/Xlog.txt > >>> > >>> Nothing useful here. You might try doing a forced rebuild of gdm2. > >>> > >>> Joe > >> > >> I got it. I tried switching to root, and running startx (root's > >> .xinitrc was set to start gnome). I got a complaint that fontconfig > >> couldn't start. Aha! > >> > >> I removed /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts and reinstalled > >> /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig and voila! Everything's fine, AND I > >> have anti-aliased fonts! Damn, that was painful, but I guess it was > >> worth it. > > > > I"m fighting this exact same problem, and I was wondering if I could > > trouble you with a couple of questions. > > > > You say you removed /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts. Do you mean the whole thing?=20 > > As > > in evert font on the system? If so, exactly what did you do to reinstal= l > > just the fonts? >=20 > My /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts directory looks like this: >=20 > total 16 > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8618 Feb 13 11:35 fonts.conf > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5712 Feb 13 11:35 fonts.dtd >=20 > So, I removed that directory, and I did >=20 > cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig > make deinstall > make clean install >=20 > That fixed the problem for me. I don't know that deleting the=20 > fonts.conf and fonts.dtd actually did anything, I was just shooting in=20 > the dark. I saw that something was foul with fontconfig, so I wanted to=20 > make sure I wiped out anything corrupted in fonts.conf. I knew the=20 > installer would replace that directory. >=20 > If two of us have had this issue now, I wonder if there's something=20 > about the build order of the gnome2.2 port that is messing up fontconfig=20 > when upgrading from a previous gnome2 install, or something like that. =20 > Does that sound plausible Joe? Not likely. I've upgraded four machines now, and never encountered this problem. I know quite a few others that haven't run in to it, either.=20 As long as you properly upgrade GNOME 2 and all of its components, you really shouldn't run into a problem. That's not to say a bad font or fontdir, or bad ~/.fonts.conf couldn't hurt you. 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