On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:59:28 -0700 Brian Mendenhall <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
