GNOME errors with 4.8

Bruce A. Mah bmah at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 28 13:42:30 PST 2003


If memory serves me right, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:01:43PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > Can we manually decompress fontconfig-2.1_6.tgz, add the '-f' to the
> > > +INSTALL file, then recompress the archive on ftp-master?
> > 
> > Sure.
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'll do this locally and burn another ISO to test on a clean system.
> > 
> > PLEASE.  I'll be offline starting at 15:00 EST today for about 4:30
> > hours.  However, if this doesn't work, page me at
> > jclarke at epage.cisco.com, and I'll try to get this taken care of.  I
> > think this should work, though.
> 
> No this does not take care of the problem during a fresh install.
> 
> Gnome still fails.
> 
> However, I re-installed it a second time with pkg_add -f
> fontconfig-xxx and it would then work properly.
> 
> Bizarre.  I have verified that I burned the right copy of the package
> on to the CD by inspecting it and seeing the -f flag added to
> +INSTALL.
> 
> Any ideas?

Any chance of there being an ordering problem...like maybe fontconfig
is getting installed before the fonts and thus the fc-cache command
getting executing befor the fonts show up?  Could this be a problem?

Bruce.


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