<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">I have been unable to launch ethereal under MacOS 10.4 from X11 and bash shell, running into a fontconfig problem each time.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Installed using Darwinports.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Each time I launch ethereal I get the following error:</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">$ sudo /opt/local/bin/ethereal</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> </FONT><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">library is not correctly configured. You may need to</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> </FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">page and on </FONT><A href="http://fontconfig.org/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#492283" face="Lucida Grande">http://fontconfig.org</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> </FONT></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Then I ran the following:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">iBook:~ colya$ sudo fc-cache -f -v</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": skipping, no such directory</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">fc-cache: "/Users/colya/.fonts": skipping, no such directory</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">fc-cache: succeeded</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">No change in behaviour.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Then I tried the suggestions at <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><A href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050502190643924">http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050502190643924</A></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande">Created the directories, with no change in behaviour.</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"> Tried fc-cache again.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Lucida Grande; min-height: 15px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">subsequently though I am back at the same problem as before, and attempting to launch etheral from X11 results in the same error.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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