gnome cannot find any fonts when xfree-4.3 is emerged. xft is unmerged, tried rebuilding using fc-cache etc. gnome-font-install -cd sees the files. Tried rebuilding a lot of gnome apps including glib and pango (obvious ones from emerge -ep gdm). Also having problems going back to xfree-4.2.1 now as my system is getting truly mucked up with trying to fix this. xfree itself works fine (both versions), its just gnome. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge unmerge xft 2./etc/init.d/xdm stop, /etc/init.d/xft stop 3. emerge -u world Actual Results: X works, gdm and most gnome apps dont Expected Results: should just work! Note that a number of others on the forums appear to have similar problms. bash-2.05b$ emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.2.5-r4,2.3.1-r4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Lin ux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /var/bind /usr/X 11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/co nfig" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg kde libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm ber kdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl pyt hon imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt motif opengl aalib atlas cdr cjk dga doc dvb dv d esd ethereal evo flash gb gd gphoto2 gtkhtml imap lcms libgda mozilla mysql od bc perl plotutils samba tcltk tetex tiff usb wmf xface" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox distcc ccache"
fontconfig version?
2.1-r1, or 2.1 : tried both, but just noticed: bash-2.05b$ fc-cache --version fontconfig version 1.0.2 bash-2.05b$ and bash-2.05b$ emerge fontconfig -s Searching... [ Results for search key : fontconfig ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * media-libs/fontconfig Latest version available: 2.1-r1 Latest version installed: 2.1 Size of downloaded files: 531 kB Homepage: http://fontconfig.org/ Description: A library for configuring and customizing font access. (this is after trying to reinstall xfree-4.2.1) What gives?
emerged fontconfig-2.0.0 and rebuilt xfree-4.3-r2. Its now mostly working, but wants to downgrade fontconfig (and loses gnome if I let it!) mozilla and galeon still dont work, but that may be a different problem. fontconfig --version now reports: * media-libs/fontconfig Latest version available: 2.1-r1 Latest version installed: 2.2.0 Size of downloaded files: 531 kB Homepage: http://fontconfig.org/ Description: A library for configuring and customizing font access.
what's the latest on this, chaps?
what do you mean by "mozilla and galeon" doesn't work? maybe a screenshot or something more descriptive would help. which version of both apps are you using and is it the gtk+1 or gtk+2 version?
Is fixed in the current versions on all 3 machines I had with the problem. Seemed to be that fontconfig-2.1x did not include the font file definitions required for xfree-4.3, but worked with xfree-4.2.1-rx - I dont know why! The masked fontconfig did so I went with that. Then the latest fontconfig ebuild (2.2.0-r2) fixed the problem permanently - I presumed this was the reason for its release so soon after fontconfig-2.1-rx as well as the missing local.conf file. Much of gnome (gdm, mozilla etc) couldnt get the default font so would not startup. Forgot about this bug as it took me quite awile to get it fixed, so didnt post the above details before.
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