So caching had nothing to do with the problem right? If you don't have fonts I would expect the non-cached wms requests to fail as well.
Should we add this to the Ubuntu deployment documentation? -- David Winslow OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org/ On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ariel Nunez <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello people, > > This message has two parts, I wrote the first one as a draft > explaining the problem. And the second exploring the solution. > > Email #1 The problem > > We set up a GeoNode last week and found out that every time we enable > labels in cached styles we get pink tiles. It seems like GeoWebCache > does not like caching styles with labels, is that a known issue? > > I will have to debug this further early next week (because our maps > are starting to look beautiful but we need to be able to add labels. > > My plan of action will be: > > #1. See if I can completely disable caching for a particular layer (names > only). > #2. Dig deeper and get the right stack trace from GeoServer / GWC that > causes the pink tiles. > > ------- > > Email #2 The solution > > I tried #2 right away (downloaded geoserver.log from the admin > interface and did a grep for 'label'. I stumbled upon this line: > > 2011-06-17 22:00:59,483 ERROR [geoserver.ows] - > 2 java.lang.Error: Probable fatal error:No fonts found. > 3 at > sun.font.FontManager.getDefaultPhysicalFont(FontManager.java:1088) > > Which was solved by installing the java fonts package: > > sudo apt-get install sun-java6-fonts > > I order to fix another issue I also switched from OpenJDK to the > Oracle / Sun JDK therefore I don't know if installing the fonts > package for openjdk will fix it too. > > Hope this is useful, > > Ariel. >
