Hoary GDM Problem

Russell Cook ruscook at gmail.com
Wed May 11 09:07:02 UTC 2005


Hi Daniel
Daniel Robitaille wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-10-05 at 19:10 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
>
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>>SESSION_MANAGER=local/arch:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7562
>>Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 29: mismatched tag
>>Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
>>Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 29: mismatched tag
>>Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
>>Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 29: mismatched tag
>>Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 29: mismatched tag
>>    
>>
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>>I also now get far enough to have an error in the /var/log/gdm/:0.log
>>file. Here's what seems relevant in this file:
>>Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>>Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing
>>from list!
>>SetClientVersion: 0 8
>>Error in "UpdateFile" -4 
>>Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>>Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing
>>from list!
>>    
>>
>
>I also get these 2 "Could not init path element..." errors on my
>machine, so I wouldn't worry about those.
>
>
>I would look first at that Fontconfig error in local.conf.  That file is
>in /etc/fonts/local.conf, and obviously gdm doesn't like something on
>line 29.  Have you tried to change it recently? Or did some changes to
>your fonts?
>  
>
The fontconfig error is unrelated I get that on my machine since I did 
one of the hoary how to's on fonts.

The line that concerns me is the  "Error in "UpdateFile" -4" line as I 
don't understand what this means or what to look for.

-- 
Kind Regards Russell
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