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

[Franz Klammer]

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.

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