Tobi, Thanks much! Guess I need to take a look at your wish list.. I did a little research based on your clue and came to suspect that my pango install(s) was/were the must likely suspect(s).
I had had a lot of trouble installing it last night, as I was trying to make a local user install. Really I needed to do it as root. It turns out there were two pangos on the system -- or one pango some of was in /usr/local/lib and some in the $INSTALL dir.. RRDtool hAD finally built after much complaining to which the above pango situation was the solution at the time...I learned something about pkg-config --list-all along the way... Don't much know or care why at this point that fontcfg (which uses pango) was confused and couldn't find the fonts it needed for the png labels. But it was confused, apparently, because after I removed pango and rrdtool, re-installed pango as root, (but used the $INSTALL directory), re-installed RRDtool as the local user (which was a breeze this time), and re-installed Smokeping, I now have fantastic looking monospaced font labels on my graphs! (And it only took me about 12 hours ;-) Steve On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Tobi Oetiker <[email protected]> wrote: > the problem is, that fontconfig can not find a monospaced font on your > system, or that you gave rrdtool explicit instructions to use a nonexisting > font. > > Tobias Oetiker > [email protected] > 062 775 9902 > > On 26.12.2012, at 18:51, steve johnston <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Smokeping produces normal graphs, but the png label text is corrupted. > The png is encoded with a black sqaure in each character position, rather > than the character itself. For example, to the left of the graph, where the > label should read "Seconds", I see a column of 7 squares. Below the graph, > instead 12:00, there are 5 horizontal squares. This is true for all the > text characters in the png. The other html text is fine. > > > > Any help is appreciated! > > > > I am running: > > > > rhel 5.8 > > smokeping-2.6.8 > > rrdtool-1.4.7 > > Apache/2.4.3 > > libpng-1.2.18 > > freetype-2.3.5 > > mod_fcgid-2.3.7 > > libxml2-2.6.32 > > perl v5.16.1 built for x86_64-linux > > glib-2.34 > > freetype-2.3.5 > > pango-1.21 > > pixman-0.10.0 > > gettext-0.18.2 > > pango-1.21.1 > > cairo-1.6.4 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > smokeping-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users > -- Thanks, Steve [email protected] 206-406-8100
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