After installing fontconfig-2.1-2mdk, gnome2 programs (e.g. gedit, gconf-editor) refuse to start:
$ gedit No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual page and on http://fontconfig.org strace(1) reveals that programs are reading the cache, and fc-list returns 511 entries (lower than before). I note that the cache files contain what looks suspiciously like garbage as the charset entry for each font, but I'm not sure if that's the problem. The previous version of fontconfig did the same. Running fc-cache -v as root doesnt' help: # fc-cache -v -f fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 9 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/large": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF": caching, 34 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1": caching, 29 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc": caching, 55 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi": caching, 397 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi": caching, 397 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont": caching, 348 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": caching, 0 fonts, 5 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default": caching, 0 fonts, 2 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1": caching, 35 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript": caching, 19 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/afms": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/afms/adobe": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/override": caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ttf": caching, 0 fonts, 2 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western": caching, 9 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives": caching, 30 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/otf": caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts/otf/mdk": caching, 3 fonts, 0 dirs fc-cache: "/root/.fonts": no such directory, skipping fc-cache: succeeded The first line of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.cache-1 is: "luximb.ttf" 0 "Luxi Mono:style=Bold:slant=0:weight=200:spacing=100:inde x=0:outline=True:scalable=True:charset= |>^1!|>^1!P0oWQ!!!!#|>^1!|>^1!| >^1!!!!%#|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!|>^1!!!K?& !!!)$&olY4 9;*l$ !!!.% !!!!j 9W Ilj!!!#R !!#0GMBc)1<QKQc!!!!5 !!!W5 !!#3H !!$<n !!#6I!dOjM !!!!G !!+?j!!!!) !!+Qp!!!(w !!+fv 9WIlj !!+lx P0o WR!!+u{!!!!) :lang=aa|af|ast|ay|bi|br|bs|ca|ch|co|cs|da|de|en|eo|e s|et|eu|fi|fj|fo|fr|fur|fy|gd|gl|gv|ho|hr|hu|ia|id|ie|io|is|it|ki|kl|la| lb|lt|lv|mg|mh|mt|nb|nl|nn|no|ny|oc|om|pl|pt|rm|ro|se|sk|sl|sma|smj|smn| so|sq|sv|sw|tn|tr|ts|vo|vot|wa|wen|wo|xh|yap|zu:fontversion=78643" (I have folded it and run it through cat -v) Liam PS: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/cookerfaq.php3 needs to be updated to mention bugzilla if that's now the perferred reporting method. -- Liam Quin, W3C XML Activity Lead, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/ Ankh's list of IRC clients: http://www.valinor.sorcery.net/clients/
