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Date:      Fri, 07 Jun 2002 11:49:36 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GNOME2 is b0rken for me :(
Message-ID:  <3D0073A0.5DE40EB2@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3CFFB778.CBD7A919@FreeBSD.org> <20020606163408.O54794-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20020607073851.GA6097@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:38:24PM -0400, Joe Clarke wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> >
> > > I found that the up-to-date GNOME2 doesn't work. It crashes all over
> > > the place, mostly in the pango library (gnome-session splash screen,
> > > nautilus2 etc). I wonder if others see it as well and if it somehow
> > > related to the recent glib20/gtk20/pango update.
> >
> > Hmmm...works for me on -stable.  Marcel reported it was working on
> > -CURRENT as of yesterday.  The latest pango stuff shouldn't cause a
> > problem, but I may have missed some locale stuff.  Do you have any core
> > dumps I can look at?  Could be a missing library.
> 
> I built all ports that were out of date so I can say that latest
> definitely works.

I found the problem - it appears that GNOME2 can't work properly
unless standard XFree86 scalable fonts are installed and configured
properly. This is definitely a bug, because instead of warning
messages and fallback to a non-scalable fonts I see segfaults all over
the place.

-Maxim

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