Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] will not launch: no fonts found / fontconfig problem

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From: "Colya K." <colyaweb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:22:22 -0700
I have been unable to launch ethereal under MacOS 10.4 from X11 and bash shell.

Installed using Darwinports.

Each time I launch ethereal I get the following error:

$ sudo /opt/local/bin/ethereal 
No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig 
library is not correctly configured. You may need to 
edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information 
about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual 
page and on http://fontconfig.org 


Then I ran the following: 

iBook:~ colya$ sudo fc-cache -f -v 
fc-cache: "/usr/share/fonts": skipping, no such directory 
fc-cache: "/Users/colya/.fonts": skipping, no such directory 
fc-cache: succeeded 

No change in behaviour.


Created the directories, with no change in behaviour. Tried fc-cache again.

subsequently though I am back at the same problem as before, and attempting to launch etheral from X11 results in the same error.

Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.