I am using emacs from git repository on freebsd 7.2, my emacs-version is
GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-unknown-freebsd7.2, GTK+ Version 2.16.6) of 2009-11-19 on XXXXXXXX
Since a few update, emacs fail to set the font correctly.
Version with git sha1 f34054625d13c909e139d997e16cfd2fd1331954 works well, last version with sha1 6d7606fc7ec746fdfbf016d83ffbc93781b8a0a0 fail with the following error
Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session)
My font and backend are set using ~/.Xressources by lines Emacs.font: Liberation Mono-13 Emacs*FontBackend: xft,x
dbus, hald and gconfd-2 daemon are running.
I tried cleaning ~/.gconf and ~/.gconfd and it did not work