Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] will not launch: no fonts found / fontconfig problem

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:23:19 +0200
can you check if your problem is the one described in:

http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-users/200505/msg00315.html

Luis

On 9/16/05, Colya K. <colyaweb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have been unable to launch ethereal under MacOS 10.4 from X11 and bash
> shell.
> 
> Installed using Darwinports.
> 
> Each time I launch ethereal I get the following error:
> 
> $ sudo /opt/local/bin/ethereal 
> 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 
> 
> Then I ran the following: 
> 
> iBook:~ colya$ sudo fc-cache -f -v 
> fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": skipping, no such directory 
> fc-cache: "/Users/colya/.fonts": skipping, no such directory 
> fc-cache: succeeded 
> 
> No change in behaviour.
> 
> Then I tried the suggestions at
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050502190643924
> 
> Created the directories, with no change in behaviour. Tried fc-cache again.
> 
> subsequently though I am back at the same problem as before, and attempting
> to launch etheral from X11 results in the same error.
> 
> Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
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