Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 09:10:48 -0800 From: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/50482: gnome-session will not start on 4.8-RC, X 4.3, Message-ID: <3E887698.10203@mail.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <1049129934.348.34.camel@gyros> References: <200303311600.h2VG0Rcx058286@freefall.freebsd.org> <1049126780.348.15.camel@gyros> <3E886E24.4050805@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1049128722.348.22.camel@gyros> <3E8871B5.3080900@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1049129934.348.34.camel@gyros>
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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). >>You have seen the truss output. Clearly, fontconfig is reading >>substantial font-cache files, as you can tell from the truss output. If >>you haven't perused the truss output, maybe you should do so. Notice >>the multiple reads of 16384 bytes at a time from various font cache >>files. Clearly there are a number of non-empty font cache files. >> >>Also, *something* is preventing gdm2 from running on my systems. X >>starts normally, but gdm dies. I cannot tell where it dies. I have no >>idea which of the multiple gdm forks is dying. I do not know which fork >>to try to debug. I do not know how to get gdm to print out any sort of >>meaningful error messages anywhere. Setting the debug flag in gdm.conf >>produces completely useless syslog output. > > > Some users have reported that uninstalling gdm2, doing an rm -r > /usr/X11R6/etc/gdm, then reinstalling gdm2 fixes this. I am *so* tired of removing and reinstalling... I have removed every single shred of anything with the name gdm. Nothing seems to work. /Joe
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