From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 19:52:02 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0761065677 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:52:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Received: from smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BAA88FC19 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:52:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net ([207.172.157.28]) by smtp02.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 17 Jun 2010 15:52:00 -0400 Received: from mx04.lnh.mail.rcn.net (mx04.lnh.mail.rcn.net [207.172.157.54]) by mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net (MOS 3.10.8-GA) with ESMTP id LST11552; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:51:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 146-115-45-245.c3-0.sbo-ubr1.sbo.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO ws-mteterin.dev.pathfinder.com) ([146.115.45.245]) by smtp04.lnh.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 17 Jun 2010 15:50:55 -0400 Message-ID: <4C1A7C9C.1040405@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:50:52 -0400 From: mi@aldan.algebra.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; uk; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: x11@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org X-Junkmail-Status: score=10/50, host=mr08.lnh.mail.rcn.net X-Junkmail-SD-Raw: score=unknown, refid=str=0001.0A020209.4C1A7CE0.01BD,ss=1,fgs=0, ip=146.115.45.245, so=2009-09-21 22:56:10, dmn=5.4.3/2007-10-18, mode=single engine X-Junkmail-IWF: false X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:25:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: gtk-based programs have problem with TTF fonts... X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:52:02 -0000 Hello! For some reason, fonts in both native firefox and pidgin (the only two gtk/gnome applications in use here) no longer render as anything, but boxes. On stderr there are scaring warnings like: (Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: font_face status is: out of memory (Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: out of memory (Pidgin:20448): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='DejaVu Sans Bold 12', text='....' According to search-engines, people have seen this problem under Linux, but the fixes/workarounds proposed seem both voodoo and too Linux-centric :-( The linux-firefox continues to work fine, which suggests, the actual fonts themselves are still Ok. I even tried moving the user's home directory aside and making her login afresh -- but the problem persisted, so it is not related to the user-settings. I even did `portupgrade -aRr' and still have the problem. Any ideas? Thanks! -mi