On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:36:45AM +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
> David Cantrell wrote:
>
> > When I upgraded my laptop from RH6.2+helixgnome to RH7, everything worked
> > (modulo redhat trampling over my custom-built apache just like I thought
> > it would the bastards) except that all my Gnome desktop icons disappeared.
> > gmc (the Gnome file manager, which does desktop icons too) complains thus:
> >
> > [david@pigsty david]$ gmc
> > Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> > Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> > Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> > Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
> > Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> > Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1
> > GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): assertion
>failed: (default_font != NULL)
> > aborting...
> > Aborted (core dumped)
>
> <shot in dark>
>
> IIRC RH 7 has built xfree with an internal font server - could this be
> an issue with your 6.2 based Helix GMC that expects XFS to be running
When I re-installed the Helix stuff, it detected that I had RH 7, so I
*assume* (OK, silly thing to do!) that it would Do The Right Thing. In
any case, surely it doesn't matter whether the font server is seperate
or built-in - applications would talk to it the same way.
[lightbulb] ISO8859-1 is the Western European character set IIRC. Could
it be that RH, being Evil Americans, forgot to include the fonts? If that's
it, any ideas about how to persuade gmc / gdk whatever to use ASCII?
> ps Apart from this any other issues - my main machine is this 6.2 based
> laptop and I am looking to move to RH 7.x
Don't! I'd forgotten quite how shitty Redhat upgrades are. About the
only reason I can think of for upgrading is to get the new version of
rpm, which is required for many of the packages on rpmfind.net and which
is a right bastard to compile from source cos it relies on a gazillion
libraries which weren't in 6.x. And that reason alone ain't good enough.
I'd have been better off switching to Debian I reckon, despite the big
dose of pain involved.
Aaarrggghhhh, the pain! Pity me as I try to upgrade Ye Olde Slackware Boxe
tonight!
> for 2.4 and of course perl
> 5.6.1 (when it comes out, perl 5.6.1 that is).
Pffft. I'd compile both of 'em from scratch anyway.
BTW, another gripe with RH7 is that instead of giving you the normal
LILO: prompt you get a stupid graphical thing. I hate it. Must read
LILO docs to get rid of it.
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