What's up with gnome-terminal?

[Rem P Roberti]

On 2009.12.01 17:52:24 +0000, Jason wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:50:07PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake:
> >On 2009.12.01 17:43:08 +0000, Jason wrote:
> >>On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake:
> >>>On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +0000, Adam Vande More wrote:
> >>>>On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti <remegius at comcast.net>
> >>>>wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to
> >>>>> load it I get this error message:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> **
> >>>>> ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
> >>>>> (app->system_font_desc != NULL)
> >>>>> Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on
> >>>>> another installation with no problems.  Did something change?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rem
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>Works great here and I doubt it a problem w/ terminal itself.  Perhaps
> >>>>your
> >>>>install is borked, try reinstalling, checking for lost/broken depends,
> >>>>etc.
> >>>
> >>>I'm sure your're right. I did a reinstall and that didn't change
> >>>anything. Is there a config file I need to tweak?  A daemon I'm not
> >>>starting?  Maybe I'm just not running this thing correctly.
> >>
> >>Did you rebuild all dependent ports on this application?
> >
> >I just did a deinstall/reinstall. Not sufficient?  What's the procedure
> >for doing a complete rebuild of the dependents?
> >
> I use portmaster, but you can use a host of utilities for this.
> 
> portmaster -r gnome-terminal 
> 
> I would start with that.

OK...tried that, but the results the same error message when I try to
run gnome-terminal. Frustrating.

Rem