Take a look through the /sw/bin/startkde script. There are several instructions early in the script's execution that focus on font location and what fonts will be made available to X11. There are 5 different checks and possible font activations- X fonts, user fonts, system fonts, user override fonts, and system override fonts. That is just for KDE. Your window manager could very well add to this.
Since metacity is crashing, have you tried launching KDE with the quartz-wm? Have you tried launching metacity in your .xinitrc file and not kde? Fink puts its stuff in /sw and X11 puts its stuff in /usr- there are links between but it is easy to have an app get confused and look to the wrong place for info it needs during launch. In addition, there are hidden directories created in your home directory for these different desktop and window managers. You'll find ~/.kde, ~/.gnome, ~/.metacity and others with the preferences and changes you have made since they were installed.
I would suggest backing up and starting from a clean slate- then installing kde or gnome only. I would delete the invisible directories on your home directory that have been created by the X11 apps. See what is installed in the default installation and what is created when you run it the first time.
HTH Craig On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 10:42 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
Can you send the results of running "fink list -i pango1" and "fink list -i xfree86" to the list?
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 11:33, Marc Stergionis wrote:Looks like I have font-created problems with some wm's and kde and gnome.
The crashes produce:
Command: metacity PID: 24378
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001) Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
Thread 0 Crashed: #0 0x0088c2b8 in FT_New_Face_From_SFNT #1 0x0088c58c in FT_New_Face_From_FOND #2 0x0088c3a0 in FT_New_Face_From_Suitcase #3 0x0088c83c in FT_New_Face #4 0x0049b074 in FcFreeTypeQuery #5 0x0049ac2c in FcFileScan #6 0x0049ae6c in FcDirScan #7 0x00495cd0 in FcConfigBuildFonts #8 0x0049bb5c in FcInitLoadConfigAndFonts #9 0x0049bbc0 in FcInit #10 0x00495de0 in FcConfigGetCurrent #11 0x00497218 in FcConfigSubstituteWithPat #12 0x00177b1c in pango_fc_default_substitute #13 0x001787b8 in pango_fc_font_map_get_patterns #14 0x00178394 in pango_fc_font_map_load_fontset #15 0x003768c8 in pango_context_get_metrics #16 0x00040734 in meta_ui_init #17 0x0001857c in main #18 0x000021e0 in _start (crt.c:267) #19 0x00002060 in start
I have updated kde with this week's source updates and did self-update cvs and update all this morning.
I did not install xfree separately, but simply went from the initial fink install to an "install bundle-kde."
What should I be looking for/doing to get past the font crashes?
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