Bug 9177 – gnome 2.0.2 won't work with xfree 4.2.1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Kotowicz 2002-10-15 16:19:48 UTC]

I unmerge xfree 4.2.0 and emerged 4.2.1. didn't change the XF86Config file or
anything else - gnome refuses to start. please see attached .gnomercfile

[Comment 1 Andreas Kotowicz 2002-10-15 16:20:30 UTC]

Created attachment 4739 [details]
packed .gnomerc-errors file

[Comment 2 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-10-16 03:08:30 UTC]

interesting.

Rebuild Pango (the Xft engine changed between X 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 )  That should
fix the problems you are having.

[Comment 3 Andreas Kotowicz 2002-10-16 10:13:51 UTC]

I unmerged and remerged Pango. I noticed that emerge fetched pango 1.0.5. it did
install but now I get following:
aborting...

** ERROR **: Failed to match any font. This could be due to a broken Xft
configuration, or if you run XFree 4.1.0 due to a bug in libXrender. For more
information about this, read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68030

aborting...
/usr/libexec/gnome_segv: error while loading shared libraries:
libgnomecanvas-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: Error 23

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2002-10-16 11:08:00 UTC]

Well, i don't think this is a pango problem, but you might try and go back to
1.0.4 .

My guess is that it's fontconfig that is faulty. Try and run 'fc-cache' see what
it returns.

[Comment 5 Andreas Kotowicz 2002-10-16 11:13:54 UTC]

I won't downgrade to pango 1.0.4 as I also don't think it's a pango issue.
fc-cache doesn't return me anything.

[Comment 6 foser (RETIRED) 2002-10-16 11:31:33 UTC]

And fc-list does return a list of fonts ?

[Comment 7 Andreas Kotowicz 2002-10-16 11:41:55 UTC]

it doesn't. but now I unmerged and remerged freetype and fontconfig and it works!

[Comment 8 foser (RETIRED) 2002-10-16 11:47:01 UTC]

If fc-list didnt return any fonts, gnome2 doesnt have any fonts to use..
effectivly making it disfunctional. I'm sure now it does list fonts.