Many OSX people on Slashdot complain that Inkscape does not start for them, just hangs and shows nothing. Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
Here's the bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1245978&gro...
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, bulia byak wrote:
Many OSX people on Slashdot complain that Inkscape does not start for them, just hangs and shows nothing. Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
Here's the bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1245978&gro...
There's two things. There are long start times, only on 10.4.x that seem to be caused by spotlight indexing (maybe) or some weird delay based on the way we load libraries (more likely). It just takes even more than a minute the first time inkscape loads so people think it has crashed. If it's icon doesn't disappear from the dock then it hasn't crashed. It seems to start in normal time from the second load onwards.
There also seems to be another crash going round, due to font issues, likely by people who have copiled the X11 app without running the actually installer for it that installs lots of support stuff, this is my hpothesis, but I still need to test it out.
My Powerbook just died this morning, likely logic board problem, so I'm going to be without it for up to a week. *sigh*
I've commented on the two new OSX 10.4 bugs and assigned them to me.
Cheers, Michael
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Michael Wybrow wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, bulia byak wrote:
Many OSX people on Slashdot complain that Inkscape does not start for them, just hangs and shows nothing. Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
Here's the bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1245978&gro...
There also seems to be another crash going round, due to font issues, likely by people who have copiled the X11 app without running the actually installer for it that installs lots of support stuff, this is my hpothesis, but I still need to test it out.
My Powerbook just died this morning, likely logic board problem, so I'm going to be without it for up to a week. *sigh*
I've commented on the two new OSX 10.4 bugs and assigned them to me.
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 foolowing command: sudo fc-cache
Those two new OSX crash bugs are both this problem. I will close them, after commenting with the fix.
Cheers, Michael
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 foolowing 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?
--Ted
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
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