Date: 14 Feb 2003 15:08:01 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com> Cc: stan <stanb@awod.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7p3 -- multiple issues Message-ID: <1045253280.2544.68.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <AAE4ACF2-4056-11D7-95D6-0005025E566F@antsclimbtree.com> References: <AAE4ACF2-4056-11D7-95D6-0005025E566F@antsclimbtree.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:58, Mark Edwards wrote: > 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? Not likely. I've upgraded four machines now, and never encountered this problem. I know quite a few others that haven't run in to it, either. As long as you properly upgrade GNOME 2 and all of its components, you really shouldn't run into a problem. That's not to say a bad font or fontdir, or bad ~/.fonts.conf couldn't hurt you. 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 -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA+TUygb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgUhAJ9nw5TOXYK83ED917j76JXFSdYKCACgkVz2 a7UzCqujAK+EIkmuyEXODdE= =QOv8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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