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

[Franz Klammer]

Am Mo, 2003-03-31 um 19.54 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 12:51, Franz Klammer wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Weird thing, but fonts in ~/.fonts don't require fc-cache.  fontconfig
  ^^^^^
  you say it!! :-)

> picks them up, and uses them without a problem.
> 
> However, I use x11-fonts/webfonts for my Windows fonts, and my TrueType
> directory holds all my downloaded TrueType fonts.
> 

maybe it works now if i copy the fonts back, but i'm not really
interested to try it out.

> > 
> > 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.
> 
> fc-cache is definitely needed for system fonts (i.e. fonts in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts [even for root]).
> 

as joe kelsey has so much problems i thought it can't hurt to bring his
cache files in accurate state before. i've done it so.

franz.

> Joe
> 
> > 
> > maybe it helps you too.
> > 
> > franz.
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