A Divendres 11 Abril 2003 12:01, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar va escriure: From the end of the previous message:
> 2. How can I make xfstt and KDE-3.1.1 co-exist on my office machine? at the university I have xfstt and kde3.1.1 installed and runing, but at home no. > Dear Folks at KDE and Debian, > > This is a follow up to Leo's detailed analysis of why KDE-3.1.1 kdm > crashes on startup in Debian. > > I first experienced problems with the upgrade on my home machine; I > posted to this group about ten days ago. I then tried an upgrade on my > office this week and had the same problem noted before. My office > machine has a default Debian testing distribution with a few unstable > packages like mozilla. > > I give my comments below: > > Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > A Dijous 03 Abril 2003 10:54, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda va escriure: > > Hi, > > > > after some kind of fight betwend my old box, kde and I have a system > > working now, and I "think" that I understand what happened. > > > > I did a purge of all kde, and qt as Ralf said in another message. > > > >>>apt-get remove --purge libqt3* > > Did this. > > > So I began to test what happended. > > > > I did a simple installation with a minimal X, and xdm and I installed > > scribus that for dependency needed libqt-mt. > > > > And boom, I couldn't run scribus. The messages was (I'm sorry, I had to > > have wrotten it) something like this > > ~~~QFont: cannot set the font size to -1 > > I removed all lib3t2 and libqt3 packages also. > > > In that time I had the Xserver configured with two fonts servers: > > xft and xftt. The truetype fonts were managed by xftt because I thought > > that it was better, but not. I don't know which are the difference > > betwend libqt 3.1.2 and 3.1.1, but with 3.1.1 I didn't have any problem > > but with the new version it was a nightmare. > > I think xfstt is the cause of the problem. Interestingly, I have libqt3 > release 3.1.2-0woody1 on both my home and office PCs. > > I too had xfstt on my system: kdm failed to startup; the X server also > crashed. As root, if I did > > /etc/init.d/xfstt stop > > and started x, the X-server worked and KDE was available. If I > re-booted (and xfstt was again up) the X-server and kdm again crashed. > > So I did > > apt-get remove xfstt > > and re-booted and things were perfect. > > However, on my home PC, I can and do have xfstt and KDE-3.1.1 running > together. > > This points to xfstt being part of the cause of kdm crashing, but maybe > not the sole cause. > > I conclude that xfstt holds the clue to the answer of the problem on my > office machine, perhaps in conjunction with x-server* packages. > > I have the following questions and comments: > > 1. Why does xfstt co-exist with KDE-3.1.1 on my home PC but not my > office PC? (I ensured that xfstt was the same release 1.2.1-1 on both. > The xservers* debs are however 4.1.0-16 and 4.2.1-3 respectively.) > > 2. How can I make xfstt and KDE-3.1.1 co-exist on my office machine? > > 3. Does the Debian defoma font manager hold the key to this problem? (I > recall that the KDE control centre did not recognize the tt font > locations when I last tried it out. Do KDE and defoma talk?) > > 4. The gnome desktop and sawfish window manager can co-exist with xfstt > and were operational when KDE-3.1.1 kdm failed. > > > So, I removed xftt, and configured xfs to manage truetype and all is > > working.. Well, I have to say that I also suffered the bug about the > > kdelibs-data with the ui/ui_standards.rc. file (and several files more.) > > Leo, please let me know by individual e-mail how you configured xfs to > manage truetype. Many thanks for your help. > > > Otherwise, thank's for your help. > > > > Regards, > > > > Leo > > --Chandra > 11 Apr 03 > ------------------ > Dr R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar > Australian Research Centre for Medical Engineering > Murdoch University > South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, AUSTRALIA > Phone: +61-(8)-9360-2783 Fax: +61-(8)-9360-6304 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The Murdoch University CRICOS Provider Code is 00125J > ------------------
