> John Li wrote: > >>Please help! > >> I have just upgraded from RH9 to Fedora. However, > >>I have a problem using Simplified Chinese (Traditional > >>Chinese works fine). When at the login prompt I > >>choose languages, the script next to the simplified > >>Chinese option does not display Chinese, but little > >>squares of hex code. (Thai is the same way.) When I > >>choose simplified Chinese and log in, Linux will not > >>load, and the following message pops up: > >> Your session only lasted 10 seconds....this could > >> mean there is some installation problem.... > >>[ellipses represent text deleted by me] > >> > >>The option is presented to view file ~/.xsession-errors, > >>which contains: > >> > >>0mXftFontOpen(): Failed: > >>(and then, in Chinese: "file or directory doesn't exist") > >>Following charsets: > >>0: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-ISO8859-1 > >>1: -Sony-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-ISO8859-1 > >>2: -isas-fangsong ti-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 > >>3: -jis-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-jisx0208.1983-0 > >>4: -baekmuk-batangbdf-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-ksc5601.1987-0 > >>5: -taipei-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-big5-0 > >>6: -arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 > >>.... > >>** (gnome-session:5681): WARNING **: Cannot open font file for font > >>ZYSong 18030 10 > >>** (gnome-session:5681): WARNING **: Cannot open fallback > >>font, nothing > >>to do > >> > >>What can I do to fix this problem? > >> > >>By the way, no such problem existed in my RH9 installation. > I'm aware > >>that RH9 used zh_CN.gb18030, while Fedora uses zh_CN.UTF-8, I think. > >> Thanks very much! > >> > > Additional information that I should have > > mentioned: I have added all updates available > > via up2date (except Mozilla-related, due to > > some bug) as of 1/1/04. I did not test whether > > simplified Chinese worked before adding the > > updates. > > > > John > > This bug might be related: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109537 > > Although marked as "closed", the underlying problem still remains. > Mozilla was fixed to discard bad font info, coasting through the > problem (but not displaying the font!). > > Several font packages won't update properly from RH9 -> FC1, and > the bad font info can result in app crashes. I noticed it in mozilla, > though the problem isn't restricted to this app. > > Several remedies to the font problem are described in the bug > comments. > > Hope this helps, > -Bob Arendt > Many thanks! That bug report resulted in getting everything fixed. 1) Installing the Mozilla update took care of errors 0-6. 2) Then used the solution in your email archived at http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg04215.html: rpm -e --nodeps ttfonts-zh_CN rm -rf /usr/share/fonts/zh_CN/TrueType rpm -Uvh ttfonts-zh_CN-2.13-0.noarch.rpm Strangely, this rpm does not contain a font file named ZYSong (as indicated in the error message), but re-installing it did the job. John
