Date: 31 Mar 2003 19:51:21 +0200 From: Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> 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: <1049133080.1248.29.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> 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>
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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
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