Quick fix:
declare -x GDK_USE_XFT="0"
Allows applications to start !
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:56, Stephen Pickering wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 22:18, Serge Pl�ss wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I reported earlier that after the urpmi update on Monday December 30th mozilla
> > would fail to launch.
> > This had been a clean Cooker 9.1 install from early december and mozilla and
> > drakconf had been working properly.
>
> I also have the same problem, I used to use mozilla for web & email,
> changed to konqueror & evolution (I was going to change to evolution and
> galeon for web anyway), but pan, galeon and many others are also broken.
> All with the same problem I think.
>
> If you look at the cooker email list lately you will also see others
> complaining about apps not working since last week. They all seem to be
> related to not finding fonts.
>
> Seems to be related to the latest XFree86, I had updated everything
> except XFree86 as I prefer to restart X after updating it. When I
> updated X the apps failed (I think).
>
> > After doing to the urpmi --auto-select --auto ... on that monday morning
> > mozilla would not launch anylonger. Not having able to resolve the issue I
> > would just run the urpmi every morning and see if it would work again,
> > uninstalled and reinstalled mozilla, removed the .mozilla directories, etc.
> > So far no luck.
> > Then today I tried to launch drakconf and it also failed to launch. But it
> > gave me the following error message:
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > drakconf --verbose
> > 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
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Now, since the original install of the fresh cooker and doing the urpmi's
> > every morning I had not touched anything about the fontconfigs. Now obviously
> > something that got updated on that december 30th must have caused this to
> > brake.
> > I checked the file /etc/fonts/fonts.config and the paths that are in there
> > exist and have fonts in them. Also tried running fc-cache and no luck.
> > Would love to be able to find out what it is and how this can be fixed without
> > reinstalling the whole cooker from scratch.
> > Here is the listing of packages that got updated that day. I read something
> > that the latest XFree was doing something with Xft2 stuff but haven't been
> > able to make sense of it for my current issue.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any information or tips
> >
> > Serge
> >
> > Mon Dec 30 06:06:41 2002 /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mkisofs-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-jdbc-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-python-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gdm-2.4.0.12-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/rpm-python-4.0.4-23mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libpostproc0-0.90-0.rc2.2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-server-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-devel-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libgpm1-1.20.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cdrecord-devel-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cvs-1.11.4-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/bug-buddy-2.2.99-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gaim-0.59.7-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cdrecord-cdda2wav-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xcdroast-0.98-26.alpha12mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/eject-2.0.13-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/nut-1.2.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libecpg3-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/rpm-build-4.0.4-23mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-devel-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cdrecord-2.0-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libdvdnav1-0.1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/krozat-9.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-test-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-xfs-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/popt-1.6.4-23mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gpm-1.20.1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/rpm-4.0.4-23mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libmpeg2dec0-0.3.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/passwd-0.68-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libdha0.1-0.90-0.rc2.2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gnome-pim-1.4.8-4mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-libs-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libpgtcl2-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xine-dvdnav-1-0.beta1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mplayer-0.90-0.rc2.2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xine-win32-1-0.beta1.1plf.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/logrotate-3.6.6-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/rpm-devel-4.0.4-23mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/postgresql-tcl-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/rfbdrake-0.9.1-4mdk.noarch.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/mplayer-gui-0.90-0.rc2.2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/cabextract-0.6-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/yelp-2.1.3-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xine-alsa-1-0.beta1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gdb-5.3-1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-MDK-Common-1.0.4-12mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/gnome-pim-conduits-1.4.8-4mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/popt-devel-1.6.4-23mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/XFree86-server-4.2.99.3-1.20021223.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xine-plugins-1-0.beta1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libpq3-7.3.1-3mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libdvdread2-0.9.3-4mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-GTK2-0.0.cvs.2002.12.18.1-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xine-faad-1-0.beta1.1plf.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libxine1-1-0.beta1.1mdk.i586.rpm
> > /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/xine-vcdx-0.9.13-2mdk.i586.rpm
> >
> >
>
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