Re: Adding truetype fonts screws up gnome?

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

My final resolution to this problem was to add fonts in groups and see 
when the problem resurfaced. Turned out, that out of the 385 fonts I was 
trying to add, one was causing the problem, thus I simply did not add it.

Geoffrey wrote:
> I decided to add a slew of truetype fonts I had laying around to my SuSE 
> 8.2 box.  All went well and I could access them fine.  Then I tried to 
> fire up gtali, and it complains that it can not find any fonts.  Tells 
> me to check fontconfig.
>
> I then restarted X and now I have no panels.  If I try to start them in 
> a term, I get similar errors.  I did find fonts-config and ran it with 
> the 'force' option, but that did not seem to make any difference. The 
> resolution at this point was to remove those fonts, but that's not 
> exactly what I want.
>
> I did google a reference that noted that that fontconfig would die 
> prematurely if it found a collision between fonts.  No resolution though.
>
> Anyone else experience such a problem?

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