Fontconfig troubles...

[Ivan Gyurdiev]

Luke Macken wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 01:47 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
>   
>> So... I upgraded to rawhide today, to be greeted by:
>> - gdm, gnome, kde, kdm, windomaker, rhgb... not working, and failing 
>> with the most uninformative messages...
>>
>> I eventually managed to get into a twm shell somehow (through xdm), and 
>> established gnome programs segfault in libfontconfig: FcCreateStrList 
>> (or maybe it was FcStrListCreate).
>>
>> However, after rebuilding the package from source rpm, all problems are 
>> gone. Why?
>>     
>
> Interesting issue (although I definitely remember you having worse
> problems with dwalsh's laptop over the summer ;).  I would say bugzilla
> would be your best bet though.
>
>   
>> Also, that reminds me once again how hard it is to recover from 
>> rawhide.  Why can't old versions of rpms be kept on the download server, 
>> to aid users in the case of a critical failure?
>>     
>
> To keep people on their toes :)
>
> You can most likely recover from a broken upgrade by digging
> around /var/cache/yum for old packages, assuming you don't `yum clean`
> on a regular basis.
>
> luke
>   
Hi Luke,

This bug is caused by not running the %post script(s) of fontconfig.
See my other message called "Random RPM script failures".
This makes that bug (rpm script failures) even more important to track 
down,
since it's no longer just an annoyance - it's critical to having a 
working system.