ports/50482: gnome-session will not start on 4.8-RC, X 4.3,

[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).

>>You have seen the truss output.  Clearly, fontconfig is reading 
>>substantial font-cache files, as you can tell from the truss output.  If 
>>you haven't perused the truss output, maybe you should do so.  Notice 
>>the multiple reads of 16384 bytes at a time from various font cache 
>>files.  Clearly there are a number of non-empty font cache files.
>>
>>Also, *something* is preventing gdm2 from running on my systems.  X 
>>starts normally, but gdm dies.  I cannot tell where it dies.  I have no 
>>idea which of the multiple gdm forks is dying.  I do not know which fork 
>>to try to debug.  I do not know how to get gdm to print out any sort of 
>>meaningful error messages anywhere.  Setting the debug flag in gdm.conf 
>>produces completely useless syslog output.
> 
> 
> Some users have reported that uninstalling gdm2, doing an rm -r
> /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm, then reinstalling gdm2 fixes this.

I am *so* tired of removing and reinstalling...

I have removed every single shred of anything with the name gdm. 
Nothing seems to work.

/Joe