Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 08:49:57 -0800 From: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/50482: gnome-session will not start on 4.8-RC, X 4.3, Message-ID: <3E8871B5.3080900@mail.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <1049128722.348.22.camel@gyros> References: <200303311600.h2VG0Rcx058286@freefall.freebsd.org> <1049126780.348.15.camel@gyros> <3E886E24.4050805@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1049128722.348.22.camel@gyros>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Actually, if gnome-session fails, so should all GTK+-2 apps. Can you > xhost back any app? Since you're getting the pango "Can't find fonts" > error, either the fonts-cache-1 files are empty or you can't read them. > Does GNOME work for root, BTW? My test setup is the following in /root/.xinitrc: #!/bin/sh truss gnome-session >/tmp/truss-sess 2>&1 If I remove /root/.xinitrc, startx produces the expected result of the default three xterms with clock and whatever. I still cannot start any gnome apps since none of the gnome infrastructure is running. You have seen the truss output. Clearly, fontconfig is reading substantial font-cache files, as you can tell from the truss output. If you haven't perused the truss output, maybe you should do so. Notice the multiple reads of 16384 bytes at a time from various font cache files. Clearly there are a number of non-empty font cache files. Also, *something* is preventing gdm2 from running on my systems. X starts normally, but gdm dies. I cannot tell where it dies. I have no idea which of the multiple gdm forks is dying. I do not know which fork to try to debug. I do not know how to get gdm to print out any sort of meaningful error messages anywhere. Setting the debug flag in gdm.conf produces completely useless syslog output. /Joe
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