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Re: converting to native xorg



On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 03:28:53PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:51:05 -0400 (EDT)
> "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > I'm converting a system from pkgsrc xorg to native xorg.  When I
> > > try to run firefox, I get this:
> > >
> > > Fontconfig warning: no <cachedir> elements found. Check
> > > configuration. Fontconfig warning: adding
> > > <cachedir>/var/cache/fontconfig</cachedir> Fontconfig warning:
> > > adding <cachedir>~/.fontconfig</cachedir>
> > >
> > > followed by a core dump.  Presumably, there's some old configuration
> > > lying around that I need to zap.
> > 
> > You are missing the xetc.tgz set, or the one you have installed is
> > out of date.
> > 
> Actually, though it was pilot error, it was more elementary than that
> -- I'd forgotten to run etcupdate.  There were an amazingly large
> number of places that referred to X11R6...
> 
> That's working; now to figure out why X forwarding isn't working...

Because the path to xauth hard-coded into ssh/d is wrong.  This is known
but haven't been fixed yet.

There are still a number of places where paths need to be fixed, I am
workng on that.

There's also some known breakage in libX11, I should be able to commit a
fix later today or tomorrow.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.

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