Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd <at> twofifty.com> writes:
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Dylan wrote:
>
> > FWIW, running fc-cache -v shows segfaults on
/Library/Fonts and
> > /System/Library/Fonts. Temporarily moving these
(e.g. to Fonts.old) allows xorg
> > to complete installation (while, obviously,
missing those fonts). Perhaps
> > fc-cache is just choking on one of these? I
unfortunately won't have a chance to
> > do more investigation for a while.
> >
> > This is all on an Intel MacBook. Building
everything from source. xorg now runs
> > as expected, though I don't know what the
implications of moving the fonts
> > around are.
>
> Did anyone reply to this? I've only done a couple of
experiments and I
> think you have several choices:
>
> 1) delete all of X and X dependencies and rebuild
everything from
> scratch. Don't use the bindist. This is what you
need to do if you want
> xorg or xfree86. You'll have failures with random X
apps otherwise.
>
> 2) delete xorg and everything you've compiled for X
since you installed
> xorg, and install Apple's X11 and the X11 SDK. With
this option, you can
> use the bindist (something that Debian-ish users
usually like).
>
> Option 1 means no bindist. Option 2 means bindist is
OK. Option 1 is
> "gentoo-ish", option 2 is "Debian-ish." :)
I suppose. But the .debs get built one way or the
other, which should be fine for any Debian user :) I,
personally, am completely sorted now. I had taken
option 1 above successfully. But I only completed that
after shuffling the directories as noted.
The real question for me is: are /Library/Fonts and
/System/Library/Fonts modified by xorg? I think not.
In xorg's postinst, after everything compiled from
scratch as per option 1, fc-cache died on those (or
rather, the fonts in those) directories. When those
were temporarily moved out of the way, fc-cache (as
part of the installation of the xorg .deb) completed
properly.
Anyway, like I said, I:
a) have a (seemingly) perfectly functioning X (in
fact, I have successfully gone with both 1 and 2 above
at different times)
b) I don't remember the specifics at the moment, but
xorg wouldn't complete postinst (because of fc-cache
crashing) with /{,System/}Library/Fonts available.
I'd file a bug, but want to figure out a bit better
what's causing fc-cache to die first. Anyway, I'll
look into it further when I get a chance (it's my
girlfriend's MacBook; I'm just trying to make it more
familiar to *me* when I get a chance to log in, thus
the slowness in my information-gathering :)
Anyway, thanks for the reply. Maybe this is helpful to
someone trying to get xorg running. I'm going to try
to figure out what fc-cache doesn't like; it could be
just this particular machine.
Dylan
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