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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] gnome sesion aborted due to missing fonts
From:       "Tom Caudron" <tom_caudron () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2002-11-08 20:50:43
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I have had the same problem and this solution didn't work.  As long as xfs
is enabled in /etc/X11/Sessions/Gnome I can't start Gnome.  When I turn it
off, Gnome starts fine, but uses ugly non-AA font rendering.

I saw that someone suggested adding a reference to the font server in
XF86Config, but when I start xfs (as is suggested below) I can't find the
server port.  7100 doesn't seem to work.  A "ps ax |grep xfs" shows that it
is running, but I didn't see where the port was listed (I'm a newbie, so if
it's there, I could have just not known it).  On the first start, it did go
through and index fints (or said so, at least), but that didn't seem to do
any good.

I also noticed there was no XftConfig in /etc/X11, so I copied one over from
another system.

The problem /seems/ to be simply that it cannot find the font server when it
starts X.  That is to say, when I start the xfs service, I get no errors, so
I assume (foolishly?) that it must be working, but X never seems to connect
to it.

Anyway, I'm not sure how to proceed.  Any help would be appreciated.  I
really haven't a clue where to go from here.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvain" <asm8@iFrance.com>


Yes ! it works !

I changed my XF86Config to use xfs, and started xfs service with
/etc/init.d/xfs start
I saw it generating some "fonts index" and it worked.
Then i removed xfs from the X configuration and stoped xfs,
and it's still working :-)

i didn't know fonts have to be indexed, but anyway, it works...

Regards,

sylvain

Le Wed, 6 Nov 2002 23:18:19 +0100
Sylvain <asm8@iFrance.com> a écrit:

> Hello !
>
> I have just build a new gento 1.4-rc1 box, but i can't login with gdm.
> It just say me that the session lasted less than 10 seconds, so it shows
> me the .xsession-error file which seems to be ok. But when i go back to
the
> console and cat the .gnomerc-errors, i can see :
> ** ERROR **: Failed to match any font. This could be due to a broken Xft
> configuration, or if you run XFree 4.1.0 due to a bug in libXrender. For
> more information about this, read
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68030
>
> I seems someone has exposed the same pb in the forum, but nobody replied :
>
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=21467&highlight=gnomercerrors+faile
d+fonts
>
> Any idea about that ?
>
> Regards,
>
> sylvain
>
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