On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:54:12 +0200
Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost> wrote:
> 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 out of date.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.
Yup, so I figured out, though I had assumed that my source was out of
date.
>
> There are still a number of places where paths need to be fixed, I am
> workng on that.
Let me repeat my suggestion that we standardize on /usr/X11, which
would be a symlink to whatever.
>
> There's also some known breakage in libX11, I should be able to
> commit a fix later today or tomorrow.
>
I'm also seeing problems with the mouse cursor jumping to the left (top
left, I think, but I'm not certain). Sounds like a thread I tracked
lightly while traveling. This is source from a week ago.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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