Oh bother...(see below)

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Viv Kendon wrote:

> From: Viv Kendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: fink-users <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:59:04 +0100 (BST)
> Subject: Re: [Fink-users] fontconfig problem
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> On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>
>>>> Viv Kendon wrote:
>>>>> I'm having a problem with bits of fontconfig: firefox gives the following
>>>>> bus error:
>>>>> Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
>>>>> /sw/lib/firefox2/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 81695 Bus error "$prog"
>>>>> ${1+"$@"}
>>
>> What version of firefox?  From the profile folder, it looks like
>
> firefox --version
> Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.13, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org
>
> (compiled in my horrendous hybrid X11 environment because it
> isn't available on 10.4)
>
>> everything in your profile is being created, so the problem probably
>> arises when drawing the first window.  Can you run the following
>> command?  If it works, you can set a test location for a test profile
>> someplace outside your NFS mount.
>>
>> firefox --profilemanager
>
> Now _that_ was a good test.  Not because of the
> --profilemanager (which it ignored), but because I'm doing
> it from home, through double ssh forwarding, to a different
> xserver(*).  And it worked.  All my home tabs opened as
> usual.  So there's nothing much wrong with either firefox or
> my profile.

Oh bother...I forgot how firefox works -- it queries the 
xserver whether a firefox instance is already running.  And 
if it is, the remote request opens local windows.  This 
doesn't test quite enough.  I quit my local firefox, and 
then firefox --profilemanager just produces the same bus 
error.

I put firefox1.5 (compiled under 10.4) back in place of 
firefox2.  Same bus error:

firefox --profilemanager
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
/sw/lib/firefox1.5/run-mozilla.sh: line 131: 84881 Bus error 
"$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I looked at my working machine and it has the same 
fontconfig mess.  And the same firefox1.5.  I'll do some 
more comparisons.  OpenOffice.org works on both machines, 
and also depends on fontconfig2.  So the fontconfig mess 
might not matter that much after all.

-- Viv

>
>> Also, the fontconfig package you wanted to remove in the first message
>> is "fontconfig-config", not "fontconfig-conf" (which is partially cut off).
>
> Yeah, that's not the problem...the problem is that all the
> outdated fontconfig stuff is interdependent and won't purge
> or update:
>
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait --remove fontconfig-config
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of
> fontconfig-config:
>  fontconfig2-shlibs depends on fontconfig-config (=
> 2.4.1-4).
>
> and
>
> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait --remove fontconfig2-shlibs
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of
> fontconfig2-shlibs:
>  firefox2 depends on fontconfig2-shlibs.
>  imagemagick depends on fontconfig2-shlibs (>= 2.2.3-10).
>  firefox2-shlibs depends on fontconfig2-shlibs.
>  cairo-shlibs depends on fontconfig2-shlibs.
>  gimp2-shlibs depends on fontconfig2-shlibs.
>  fontconfig2-dev depends on fontconfig2-shlibs (= 2.4.1-4).
>  imagemagick1-shlibs depends on fontconfig2-shlibs (>=
> 2.2.3-10).
>  openoffice.org depends on fontconfig2-shlibs; however:
>
> and
>
> fink install fontconfig2-shlibs
> Information about 6678 packages read in 2 seconds.
> Can't resolve dependency "system-xfree86-dev (>= 2:7.2-1)"
> for package
> "fontconfig2-dev-2.4.1-102" (no matching packages/versions
> found)
>
> What is supposed to be providing system-xfree86-dev?
>
> Many thanks for all the help from everyone, especially given
> my unsupported system.
>
> -- Viv
>
> (*) the X11 on this machine is an even worse hybrid...it's
> intel 10.5 with Leopard's X11 + updates, and xorg compiled
> on 10.4 intel, plus I dropped in Tigers X11.app to solve the
> "yellow cursor" problem.  And I compiled firefox2 on this
> machine and it works here too.
>
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> Dr Viv Kendon    http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
> Quantum Information          Physics & Astronomy
>                University of Leeds
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