> ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/OTF /usr/share/fonts/X11-OTF &&
> ln -svn $XORG_PREFIX/lib/X11/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF
> where XORG_PREFIX obviously is /usr in your case. Now, get that <dir>
> out of /etc/fonts/fonts.conf! There's a lot of crappy fonts that you
> don't want fontconfig to use.
Thanks, started without fussing about fonts...
> OK, let's back up a bit. Can you start a basic X session? If you
> don't have a .xinitrc file, startx will use the default xinitrc. This
> will start the horrendous twm window manager. (You need to have twm
> installed, but you should if you installed all the packages in Xorg).
> Try to start an X session with twm. If that works, then we know
Xorgis working properly.
>
> To me, it seems like you have an issue with X since it's crashing
> before gnome can even start.
Sorry my fault, I didn't mention that before building GNOME I tested X
using twm
and everything worked fine
so I'm sure its something wrong with my installation of GNOME.
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