David Cantrell wrote:
>
> Sorry to bother you all with a nasty user question, but it's bugging me,
> and has been for days.
>
> When I upgraded my laptop from RH6.2+helixgnome to RH7, everything worked
> (modulo redhat trampling over my custom-built apache just like I thought
> it would the bastards) except that all my Gnome desktop icons disappeared.
> gmc (the Gnome file manager, which does desktop icons too) complains thus:
>
> [david@pigsty david]$ gmc
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): assertion
>failed: (default_font != NULL)
> aborting...
> Aborted (core dumped)
<shot in dark>
IIRC RH 7 has built xfree with an internal font server - could this be
an issue with your 6.2 based Helix GMC that expects XFS to be running
?!?
Have you tried installing the Helix stuff for RH 7 ?
ps Apart from this any other issues - my main machine is this 6.2 based
laptop and I am looking to move to RH 7.x for 2.4 and of course perl
5.6.1 (when it comes out, perl 5.6.1 that is).
</shot in dark>
Greg
>
> OK, so it's most likely to be a font problem, but I'm buggered if I can
> figure it out. I even tried re-installing helixgnome again to see if
> that would fix it, but no joy.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> And no, I'm not interested in anything about how Gnome sucks and
> $othersystem is better. And that includes advocating BeOS cos I like it
> and have tried it, but it don't work on this 'ere laptop.
>
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> David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
>
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