Re: [Xpert]latest CVS xfree and gtk2 apps fail to find font--old libXrender bug back again?

mikepolniak <[email protected]> writes:

> Just updated to latest cvs version 4.2.99.1 and trying to load pan(newsreader) with
> GDK_USE_XFT=1 gives:
> 
> ** ERROR **: Failed to match any font. This could be due to a broken Xft configuration, or if you run XFree 4.1.0 due to a bug in libXrender. For more information about this, read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68030
> 
> aborting...
> 
> This bug was fixed for 4.2.0 but apparently is back. If i unset GDK_USE_XFT
> then pan will load, although without aa fonts. Is there a fix ?

Almost certainly what is going on here is "broken Xft configuration"
rather than the Xrender bug referenced in the error message.

The Xft version 1 library in XFree86 CVS uses a different
configuration file than earlier versions of Xft; typically it will be
in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.

You might want to look at the output of:

 strace -e open pan

To see what coniguration file it is trying to load, and whether
it is finding it.

Regards,
                                        Owen