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  • From: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
  • To: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] fontconfig has no fonts
  • Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 23:55:19 -0600

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Dufflebunk wrote:
| I just completed a masive updated yesterday, and I am unable to run gdm2
| any more. I'm using gnome2 (thus gdm2). Running gnm or gnmconfig results
| in a complaint that there are no fonts and to check the configuration of
| fontconfig. I've recast fontconfig, Xft2, pango, and gdm2 since then
| with no luck. (Although I did get lots of error messages w/
| pango-1.1.4.) Galeon2 has this problem as well. Here is the error
| message:
|
| # gdmconfig
| No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
| library is not correctly configured. You may need to
| edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
| about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
| page and on http://fontconfig.org
|
| Please note that that man page doesn't exist and that the web site
| doesn't do much good if I can't get galeon running ;)
|
| This error seems familiar... something about the order of casting or
| something, but I can't recall.
| Does anyone have any ideas?
|
I had a problem with gdm from my update today. I never did get an error
message about fontconfig. But I did notice that man fontconfig returned
nothing. So I downgraded fontconfig to 2_0 and gdm is working again.

Geoff
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