From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 09:10:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5499637B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net (gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net [207.246.128.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B702643F75 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:10:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joek@mail.flyingcroc.net) Received: from mail.flyingcroc.net (zircon.staff.flyingcroc.net [207.246.150.92])h2VHAmTD092263; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:10:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3E887698.10203@mail.flyingcroc.net> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:10:48 -0800 From: Joe Kelsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030219 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <200303311600.h2VG0Rcx058286@freefall.freebsd.org> <1049126780.348.15.camel@gyros> <3E886E24.4050805@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1049128722.348.22.camel@gyros> <3E8871B5.3080900@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1049129934.348.34.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1049129934.348.34.camel@gyros> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: ports/50482: gnome-session will not start on 4.8-RC, X 4.3, X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 17:11:21 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 11:49, Joe Kelsey wrote: > >>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. > > > Have you made any modifications to /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts/fonts.conf? > What font ports/packages do you have installed? It looks to me like you > have the stock XFree86 fonts, plus urwfonts, plus some unnamed TrueType > fonts. Have you tried moving the TrueType directory out of the way, and > see if that corrects things? The debug should definitely shed some > light on things, too. The TrueType directory is pretty much the stock .ttf files copied from a windoze machine. The exact same fonts were (and still are) working just fine on my work machine (from which I am typing this message). >>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. > > > Some users have reported that uninstalling gdm2, doing an rm -r > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm, then reinstalling gdm2 fixes this. I am *so* tired of removing and reinstalling... I have removed every single shred of anything with the name gdm. Nothing seems to work. /Joe