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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] fontconfig has no fonts
  • Date: 05 Feb 2003 01:45:46 -0500

Just recompiled fontconfig to 2_0, no luck. Same problem. No man page
either.

On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 00:55, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
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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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