Re: font_cacher problem

[Adam Fedor]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 6:14 AM, Andreas Höschler wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have problmes with the art backend. The rows in teh tableview of a  
> popped up combo box are not drawn correctly. I therefore switched back  
> to xlib. On my Solaris 10 SPARC machine thi ssolved the problem.  
> However,on a Solaris 10 AMD machine, starting the appliction complains  
> about the font cahce not being availabe. It tries to create it and  
> dies withthe following error message:
>
> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  17 (X_GetAtomName)
>   Atom id in failed request:  0x0
>   Serial number of failed request:  71
>   Current serial number in output stream:  71
font_cacher often triggers bugs in the X server or even causes it to  
crash when it tries to look at all the fonts in the system.  You might  
want to set GSFontMask to limit the fonts looked at. See

http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/ 
userfaq_1.html#SEC29