Carsten, I admit to not knowing a whole lot about fontconfig, but the only other test I tried was opening gnome-terminal and setting the font to 'Sans' which worked just fine.
Besides 'fc-match Sans', how else can I determine if it is a broken/misconfigured fontconfig? I haven't messed with it since upgrading (Mandriva 2009.1 btw), so it should be a fresh install... Thanks for looking into this. -Brian On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:45:09PM +1000, Carsten Haitzler so gracefully typed: > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:59:28 -0700 Brian Mendenhall <wy...@speculation.org> > said: > > and you checked fontconfig properly defines a usable sans font? simply put - > every ubuntu install i have done has a sans font. it just works (tm). i have > never had a missing one. it's the "standard" default font these days that has > fontconfig set up all the international fonts too in a fontset (eg so chinese, > japanese, korean, russian, etc. will all work properly with no more work). > > > Hello all, > > > > I puttered around the forums, email archive, and IRC, but I was unable to > > find > > any information that pointed me into a direction that solved the issue I am > > now having. > > > > I installed a fresh version of enlightenment from svn over the weekend, upon > > trying to 'startx' now, I am greeted with the following: > > > > === begin paste === > > ESTART: 0.13189 [0.00009] - test file format support > > <<<< Enlightenment Error >>>> > > Enlightenment found Evas can't load the 'Sans' font. Check Evas has > > fontconfig > > support and system fontconfig defines a 'Sans' font. > > > > E17: Begin shutdown procedure! > > === end paste === > > > > Most of the information I found, including a closed bug report on E's > > tracker > > site, pointed me towards fontconfig support. My install of evas found the > > fontconfig library: > > > > === begin paste === > > configure:17557: checking for FONTCONFIG > > configure:17564: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "fontconfig" > > configure:17567: $? = 0 > > configure:17580: $PKG_CONFIG --exists --print-errors "fontconfig" > > configure:17583: $? = 0 > > configure:17630: result: yes > > === end paste === > > > > and was linked properly: > > > > === begin paste === > > [r...@mintaka lib]# ldd libevas.so.0 > > --snip-- > > libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb7b6e000) > > --endsnip-- > > === end paste === > > > > My installation of fontconfig seems to find a "Sans" font: > > > > === begin paste === > > [r...@mintaka ~]# fc-match Sans > > DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" > > === end paste === > > > > So at this point, I can't figure out why enlightenment won't start, and why > > evas can't find the Sans font ... > > > > I tried removing my ~/.e directory, just to be sure, but no luck there. > > > > Any ideas would be much appreciated! > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- > > > > ----------------- > > Brian Mendenhall > > (aka wyndl jones) > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, > vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have > the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize > details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users -- ----------------- Brian Mendenhall (aka wyndl jones) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/blackberry _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
