Quoting David Berlind <berlind@xxxxxxxxx>: > At the suggestion of the GTK+ web site, which I needed to install for > Ethereal, I needed to install Pango, and to make that work, needed > Fontconfig. I recently ran an installation of fontconfig and it wiped How did you install fontconfig and pango? Installation from source may have its tricks. > out my X interface. The error message reported a font problem. So, I > reinstalled XFree86 (one suggestion) and I'm still getting an error. > Here is what it says when I try to start the GUI: > > Could not init font path element /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, > removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, > removing from list! > > these directories exist with files in them. I kind of doubt it, since there's a spelling error in them. :) It should be X11R6, not x11R6. Are they mentioned in your /etc/fonts/local.conf, like this? <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/</dir> If they are, did you run `fc-cache -fv` after putting them there? > When the GUI comes up, I just get a gray screen with the X in the > middle. None of the user interface elements come up. I have to do a > CTRL-ALT-BKSPC to kill the X Server. That's probably your desktop's way of coping with the lack of fonts. Usually X should die on its own in such cases, but in the end it's all the same. -- Ciprian Popovici
