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

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From: Kenji Kono <kkono@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:15:50 -0400
Hi,

Just FYI.

I was having a "No fonts found" problem with a new install of ethereal via darwinports on 10.4.2. "sudo fc-cache" I did not help. I did a google and found the following message in a mailing list archive ...


Subject: [Ethereal-users] will not launch: no fonts found / fontconfig problem
From: "Colya K." <colyaweb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:22:22 -0700
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


... which didn't seem answered. Anyways, I finally got around the issue by doing a "sudo port -d selfupdate" to update darwinports and then a reinstall.

I actually did a "sudo port uninstall ..." and then a "sudo port install ethereal", but I get the feeling it wouldn't've made a difference if I hadn't uninstalled, because after the darwinports update, I go a different set of packages.


Originally, darwinports installed:
--->  Installing libiconv 1.9.2_1
--->  Installing gettext 0.14.5_0
--->  Installing pkgconfig 0.19_0
--->  Installing glib2 2.6.6_0
--->  Installing XFree86 4.5.0_2
--->  Installing atk 1.9.1_0
--->  Installing expat 1.95.8_1
--->  Installing freetype 2.1.9_1
--->  Installing fontconfig 2.2.3_1
--->  Installing render 0.8_2
--->  Installing xrender 0.8.4_0
--->  Installing Xft2 2.1.6_0
--->  Installing pango 1.8.1_0
--->  Installing tiff 3.7.3_0
--->  Installing gtk2 2.6.8_0+darwin_8
--->  Installing openssl 0.9.8_0
--->  Installing ethereal 0.10.12_2+darwin_8


After the update, darwinports installed:
--->  Installing libiconv 1.10_1+darwin_8
--->  Installing gettext 0.14.5_0
--->  Installing pkgconfig 0.19_0
--->  Installing glib2 2.8.2_0
--->  Installing atk 1.10.3_0
--->  Installing expat 1.95.8_1
--->  Installing freetype 2.1.9_1
--->  Installing fontconfig 2.3.2_0
--->  Installing libpixman 0.1.5_0
--->  Installing render 0.9_0
--->  Installing xrender 0.9.0_0
--->  Installing cairo 1.0.0_1
--->  Installing Xft2 2.1.7_0
--->  Installing pango 1.10.0_0
--->  Installing tiff 3.7.3_0
--->  Installing gtk2 2.8.4_0+darwin_8
--->  Installing openssl 0.9.8_2
--->  Installing ethereal 0.10.12_2+darwin_8



Just FYI,
Kenji