Subject: Re: acroread7 problems, possibly due to xorg
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Courtney R. Spencer <cspencer@mindspring.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/07/2005 13:48:21
On Thu Jul 07, 2005 at 10:01:53AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Is anyone successfully using print/acroread7? When I invoke it, I get
> a lot of gdkpixbuf errors such as these:
>
> (acroread:8282): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported
>
> (acroread:8282): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1319 (g_object_ref): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
>
>
> culminating in
>
> No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
> library is not correctly configured. You may need to
> edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
> about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
> page and on http://fontconfig.org
>
> I see nothing obviously wrong with my configuration; I ran fc-cache
> and /usr/pkg/emul/linux/usr/bin/fc-cache to make sure that all font
> caches were up to date.
>
> I should note that I'm experiencing this on -current with xorg.
>
> It's becoming rather critical to get acroread7 working. acroread5 has
> some new security holes; Adobe's suggested fix is to switch to
> acroread7.
>
I had the same issue on current with Xfree86. I found that during a
postinstall of suse_gtk2-9.1nb3 there were errors and the following
file was either scrambled or not created:
/usr/pkg/emul/linux/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
What I did to workaround this was take the netbsd native package file
(/usr/pkg/libdata/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders) and correct the paths
s@/usr/pkg/@/opt/gnome/@
and the version
s@2.4.0@2.2.0@
then ran fc-cache.
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Courtney R. Spencer