Re: Font issue with recent emacs cvs

[Jan Djärv]

Damien Deville skrev:
> Hi emacs-devel,
>
> 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

This usually means that your ORBit configuration has been corrupted.  You can 
configure Emacs --without-gconf util you figure out what is wrong with your 
system.  I'm not sure if that takes care of the Fontconfig error.

        Jan D.