Hey guys. When I installed xfree-4.2.1 I didn't have my timezone set yet. If no timezone is set and 'date' is called, something like this is shown: >> "Tue Oct 22 09:50:05 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual". When, after the xfree emerge, '/etc/init.d/xfs start' is executed, the following error occurs: >> * Creating font cache... >> Fontconfig error: line 17: not well-formed (invalid token) >> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file I found out this problem occurs because the timezone in line 17 of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf was the same output as stated above, so I had to set my timezone, do a `date` after that, then replaced the invalid date in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf with the correct output of `date`. I recommend /etc/init.d/xfs to contain a line or script that checks /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, if it finds 'see zic manual' or something, replace the invalid line (line 17) with a correct `date`-output. Just my $0,02; good luck :) Mark
This is something I keep forgetting. We need to change the docs to set the timezone *after* bootstrap, but *before* emerge system, as a few things need you to have a valid timezone. Collin ... would you be so kind. If there is any issues, please ask, hopefully somebody should know.
*** Bug 9705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This should be fixed for fontconfig-2.0-r2 at least. Removed the date inclusion for fonts.conf ...
