From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 09:51:19 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 8E00037B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sv02.webonaut.com (kirk.webonaut.com [212.41.243.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742EC43F93 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from klammer@webonaut.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sv02.webonaut.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E75576423; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:51:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sv02.webonaut.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sv02.webonaut.com [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with ESMTP id 05744-07; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:51:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [212.41.243.28] (sisko.webonaut.com [212.41.243.28]) by sv02.webonaut.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9EB76421; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:51:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Franz Klammer To: Joe Kelsey In-Reply-To: <3E887698.10203@mail.flyingcroc.net> References: <200303311600.h2VG0Rcx058286@freefall.freebsd.org> <3E886E24.4050805@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3E8871B5.3080900@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3E887698.10203@mail.flyingcroc.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1049133080.1248.29.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 Date: 31 Mar 2003 19:51:21 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new 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 17:51:21 -0000 Am Mo, 2003-03-31 um 19.10 schrieb Joe Kelsey: > 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). > hi! i had the same problem like you. first i'm thought i to silly to install it but everything seems to be resp. _was_ installed in the right way. i didn't find really the reason why no gnome/gtk2 software found any font but everything is working well after i copied all my ttf (windows any anywhere downloaded) fonts into my ~/.fonts directory. i would recommend also running fc-cache -v -f again after doing that and delete you ~/.fonts.cache-1 before try to start gnome/gmd2. maybe it helps you too. franz. -- WEBONAUT.com http://webonaut.com mailto:klammer@webonaut.com