Yes, I think caching had nothing to do with the problem (but did not edit the title :) )
Yes we should add this to the Ubuntu docs. Ariel. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 11:25 AM, David Winslow <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
