From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Dec 22 05:48:14 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 070C116A4D1
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:48:14 +0000 (GMT)
Received: from smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com
	[66.163.170.84])	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C76FE43D39
	for <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>;
	Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:48:13 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from donp@mindspring.com)
Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.1.34?)
	(tungten@sbcglobal.net@69.111.111.187 with plain)
	by smtp814.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Dec 2004 05:48:13 -0000
Message-ID: <41C90AA7.5050508@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:48:23 -0800
From: Donald Perkovich <donp@mindspring.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: No Gnome Text
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>,
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:48:14 -0000

I am running 5.2-RELEASE and use Gnome as my desktop environment.  A few 
weeks ago I started it up from startx and none of the gnome applications 
had any text.  It appears that the fonts are all zero width.  The menus 
are there, thie icons are there, but no text.  Applications that aren't 
gnome apps display text normally.  For example gEdit has no text in its 
menus, but NEdit looks normal.

I cannot find any indication of any error messages from X.  Its logs 
look OK. I tried upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6.  I installed KDE and its 
looks fine, but gnome applications (like gEdit or Eclipse built with 
gtk+) have no text.  I cannot find any indication of where the problem is.

What is the problem and how can I fix it?

Thanks,

Donald Perkovich