David Cantrell wrote:
>
> 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.
Was a shot in the dark.
>
> [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?
None, but you could install the fonts.
>
> > 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.
Know what you mean - I've never upgraded a system, just blanked it and
started again, Just my main machine - my laptop has so much installed
that this would now be a pain.
>
> Aaarrggghhhh, the pain! Pity me as I try to upgrade Ye Olde Slackware Boxe
> tonight!
To reddrat or Slackware ?
>
> > 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.
Is this a penguin - does the kernel have frame-buffer support turned on
?
Greg
>
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>
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