On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Ted Gould wrote:
Michael Wybrow wrote:
ok, so it turns out that none of these users ae doing anything wrong. There is just a common problem on OS X 10.4.x where the X11 installer doesn't properly generate the font cache. So when any X11 app using fontconfig starts it crashes, not finding any fonts.
The fix is to run the following command: sudo fc-cache
Those two new OSX crash bugs are both this problem. I will close them, after commenting with the fix.
Should we put this as news on the website?
Yes, or perhaps on the download page, near the link for the dmg file.
It needs to say the solution is to run /usr/X11R6/bin/fc-cache as root.
I'd like the launcher to show this information to the user, but it would likely be a little hard to test since the problem doesn't occur on any of the four machines I have tried it on.
Michael