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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 11:34, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 11:00, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> > 
> >>The following reply was made to PR ports/50482; it has been noted by GNATS.
> >>
> >>From: Joe Kelsey <joek at mail.flyingcroc.net>
> >>To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, joe at zircon.seattle.wa.us
> >>Cc:  
> >>Subject: Re: ports/50482: gnome-session will not start on 4.8-RC, X 4.3,
> >>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:52:56 -0800
> >>
> >> I can send truss output.
> >> 
> >> There is absolutely no problem with fontconfig.  I re-install it and 
> >> pango and everything else I can think of.  I run fc-cache -f -v multiple 
> >> times.  I manually verify the font-cache-1 files.
> >> 
> >> The truss output clearly shows *something* opening and reading every 
> >> single one of the font-cache files, so your blithe remarks about *it 
> >> works for me" are completely useless and do nothing to solve the very 
> >> real problems that I experience day in and day out.
> > And your blithe "it doesn't work" bug reports are helping?
> 
> I am trying to be helpful.
> 
> I spent the entire day yesterday trying to solve the problem.  I 
> installed your so-called pango fix, only to have my minimal gnome setup 
> finally completely grind to a halt.
> 
> I have been living without gdm2 for the past two weeks, ever since 
> installing X 4.3.  I have become intimately familiar with tracking down 
> and deleteing font cache files on the system and running fc-cache so 
> many times...
> 
> Now that, in addition to gdm2 not working, gnome-session refuses to 
> start, my home system is completely useless.  I have to read mail at 
> home by examining individual files in the Maildir.  It is very 
> frustrating for me.
> 
> I do my best to not submit bug reporst unless I hav espent considerable 
> time trying to fix it on my own.  I cannot find any information anywhere 
> on how to debug either fontconfig or gnome-session or gdm2.  I am left 
> with running truss...
> 
> I am very upset about gnome-session failing to work on my home system. 
> I do not want to risk the same thing happening to my work system.  It is 
> bad enough that gdm2 refuses to run on either system.  If I risk 
> upgrading my work system, then I may be stuck with the same problem on 
> two machines.
> >> 
> >> You have done nothing to help solve the multiple fontconfig problems 
> >> appearing in the field.  fc-cache is not the solution.
> > 
> > 
> > I'm open to suggestions.  I'm one guy, working for nothing, with a real
> > job, doing my best to help hundreds of users.  I can't reproduce the
> > problem locally, so what do you expect me to do?  Wave a magic wand and
> > conjure up a solution?  I need more information!
> > 
> > Do this, set FC_DEBUG to 1023 in your environment, then run startx. 
> > Send me the output.  You might also try removing ~/.fonts-cache-1, too.
> 
> I will see what happens when I get home this afternoon.  Unfortunately, 
> I cannot perform this experiment remotely.

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?

Joe

> 
> /Joe
> 
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