Re: gnumeric won't start up

[Brian M Dial <bdial rkkengineers com>]

Did you compile gnome-print and gnumeric yourself? 

fontmap is a file generated on install and is often machine specific.
It's also no in the rpm's afaik.

-Brian

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Stan Brown wrote:

> 	Upgraded a bunch of Gnome realted stuff a couple of weeks ago (from
> 	gurulabs) and then went out of town.
> 
> 	Now that I am back I find that gnumeric will no longer start up. I get
> 	the folowing:
> 
> 
> Script started on Sun Oct 10 17:12:00 1999
> [stan@judah stan]$ gnumeric
> Cannot read file /home/stan/.gnome/fonts/fontmap :
> gzopen failed: No such file or directory
> Cannot read file /usr/share/fonts/fontmap :
> gzopen failed: No such file or directory
> Gnumeric failed to find a suitable default font.
> 
> Please verify your gnome-print installation and that your fontmap file
> (typically located in /usr/local/share/fonts/fontmap) is not empty or
> near empty.
> 
> If you still have no luck, please file a proper bug report (see
> http://bugs.gnome.org) including the following extra items:
> 
> 1. Values of LC_ALL and LANG environment variables.
> 2. Your fontmap file, see above.
> 
> Thanks -- the Gnumeric Team
> [stan@judah stan]$ exit
> 
> Script done on Sun Oct 10 17:12:10 1999
> 
> 	Now, it is true that I have neither of these file. But for that matter
> 	I did not before, and gnumeric worked :-(
> 
> 	What do I do to create one f these files? BTW all the other Gnome apps
> 	I have tried work just fine, after the upgrade _without_ these files.
> 
> 	Thanks for the help.
> 
> -- 
> Stan Brown     stanb@netcom.com                                    843-745-3154
> Westvaco
> Charleston SC.
> -- 
> Windows 98: n.
> 	useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and
> 	a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
> 	originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit 
> 	company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition.
> -
> (c) 1999 Stan Brown.  Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.
> 
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