Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:58:20 -0800 From: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> To: stan <stanb@awod.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues Message-ID: <AAE4ACF2-4056-11D7-95D6-0005025E566F@antsclimbtree.com> In-Reply-To: <20030214192109.GB32002@teddy.fas.com>
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On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 11:21 AM, stan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:46:47AM -0800, Mark Edwards wrote: >> On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 11:29 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:03, Mark Edwards wrote: >>>>>> I've fixed my XFree86 install, and I have 4.2.1 running. All of >>>>>> the >>>>>> ports mentioned above are installed. I am able to run xf86cfg >>>>>> graphically and configure, and I can run X using startx, which >>>>>> loads >>>>>> fine. >>>>>> >>>>>> However, when I do: >>>>>> >>>>>> sudo /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start >>>>>> >>>>>> I get: >>>>>> >>>>>> Feb 13 01:28:56 lilbuddy gdm[15381]: Failed to start the display >>>>>> server >>>>>> several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 >>>>> >>>>> I would need to see the X log to know if it's a gdm problem. >>>>> However, >>>>> I've never tried starting gdm under sudo. >>>> >>>> Well, the same behavior occurs if I just restart the machine and let >>>> the script be triggered normally, so I doubt that sudo has anything >>>> to >>>> do with it. Also, I successfully started gdm many times this way >>>> under >>>> gnome 2.0. >>>> >>>> I have posted /var/log/:0.log and var/log/XFree86.0.log here: >>>> >>>> http://mark.antsclimbtree.com/Xlog.txt >>> >>> Nothing useful here. You might try doing a forced rebuild of gdm2. >>> >>> Joe >> >> I got it. I tried switching to root, and running startx (root's >> .xinitrc was set to start gnome). I got a complaint that fontconfig >> couldn't start. Aha! >> >> I removed /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts and reinstalled >> /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig and voila! Everything's fine, AND I >> have anti-aliased fonts! Damn, that was painful, but I guess it was >> worth it. > > I"m fighting this exact same problem, and I was wondering if I could > trouble you with a couple of questions. > > You say you removed /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts. Do you mean the whole thing? > As > in evert font on the system? If so, exactly what did you do to reinstall > just the fonts? My /usr/X11R6/etc/fonts directory looks like this: total 16 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8618 Feb 13 11:35 fonts.conf -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5712 Feb 13 11:35 fonts.dtd So, I removed that directory, and I did cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig make deinstall make clean install That fixed the problem for me. I don't know that deleting the fonts.conf and fonts.dtd actually did anything, I was just shooting in the dark. I saw that something was foul with fontconfig, so I wanted to make sure I wiped out anything corrupted in fonts.conf. I knew the installer would replace that directory. If two of us have had this issue now, I wonder if there's something about the build order of the gnome2.2 port that is messing up fontconfig when upgrading from a previous gnome2 install, or something like that. Does that sound plausible Joe? -- Mark Edwards Engineer Mr. Toad's San Francisco, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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