FontConfig Cache Builder service fails

From: Karl Rossing (karlr@barobinson.com)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2008 - 12:03:11 EDT


Managers,

The FontConfig Cache Builder Service fails on one of our servers.

    -bash-3.00$ svcs -xv
    svc:/application/font/fc-cache:default (FontConfig Cache Builder)
     State: maintenance since Tue Apr 08 09:08:31 2008
    Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last died on Killed (9).
       See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
       See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M fc-cache
       See: /var/svc/log/application-font-fc-cache:default.log
    Impact: 1 dependent service is not running:
            svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default

This leads to xwindows not starting up.

    -bash-3.00$ tail /var/svc/log/application-font-fc-cache:default.log
    [ Apr 8 09:05:40 Method property group 'stop' is not present. ]
    [ Apr 8 09:08:25 Executing start method ("/usr/bin/fc-cache") ]
    ld.so.1: fc-cache: fatal: relocation error: file
    /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: symbol FT_Get_BDF_Property: referenced
    symbol not found
    [ Apr 8 09:08:30 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
    [ Apr 8 09:08:30 Executing start method ("/usr/bin/fc-cache") ]
    ld.so.1: fc-cache: fatal: relocation error: file
    /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: symbol FT_Get_BDF_Property: referenced
    symbol not found
    [ Apr 8 09:08:31 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]
    [ Apr 8 09:08:31 Executing start method ("/usr/bin/fc-cache") ]
    ld.so.1: fc-cache: fatal: relocation error: file
    /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: symbol FT_Get_BDF_Property: referenced
    symbol not found
    [ Apr 8 09:08:31 Method "start" failed due to signal KILL ]

It seems that there are two versions of SUNWfreetype2 installed on the
system.

    -bash-3.00$ SUNWfreetype2 FreeType2 Font library
                   (sparc) 6.6.2.7400,REV=0.2004.12.15
    -bash-3.00$ pkginfo -x SUNWfreetype2.2
    SUNWfreetype2.2 FreeType 2.1.2 Font library
                     (sparc) 6.4.1.4000,REV=0.2003.01.10

The server is running Solaris 10 Update 4.

Is the best way of fixing this
pkgrm SUNWfreetype2
pkgrm SUNWfreetype2.2
pkgadd /path/to/good/SUNWfreetype2

or am i going to run into dependency hell?

Thanks
Karl

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