Following up on my own post. On Thu, Jul 20, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote: >I'm having a problem with a ThinkPad A30 running SuSE 10.1 and a mostly >Release 2.5 system with some CURRENT thrown in for flavour. > >When logging in as a normal user via kdm and the kde desktop, the fonts >aren't configured properly. Every character is a little rectangle with >nothing in it. Logging in with some other desktops, failsafe, and others, >works fine. > >X11 works fine on a mini-tower system with the same OpenPKG packages. > >The SuSE 10.1 systems are essentially identical except for some packages >that are specific to the laptop. > >The packages on the Thinkpad were installed from binaries built on the >mini-tower, and the CPUs are different which could be the source of the >problem. The Thinkpad is running ``Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU >1.60GHz'' and the mini-tower ``AMD Athlon(tm) processor''. > >Does anybody have any suggestions other than rebuilding everything on the >ThinkPad from source?
I rebuilt everything on the Thinkpad last night (9+ hours of steady compiling :-). That didn't solve the problem. Digging in further, I found that the startkde process was pulling in some shared libraries from the %{l_prefix}/lib directory that were created resulting from a consistent typo I had made when building on the AMD64 architecture which seems to require shared libraries in some cases (it probably has something to do with the -fPIC option that rpmtool generates on this architecture). It appears that the xft package that was giving the problems on the ThinkPad, or really fontconfig-2.3.91-2.5.0.src.rpm. I can't test this on the Thinkpad as my customer picked that machine up this afternoon, and the problem doesn't exhibit itself on the SuSE 10.1 system I have here for development. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 ``A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.'' Robert Heinlein ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org