Description of problem: When authconfig-gtk is installed on a "minimal" RHEL 4 system, up2date does not pull in the fonts it needs to actually run. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): authconfig-gtk-4.6.10-rhel4.1 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do minimal RHEL 4 installation 2. up2date authconfig-gtk 3. run authconfig-gtk 4. Observe font-related error message Actual results: authconfig-gtk bombs out with font-related error message. Expected results: Needed fonts should be pulled in by RPM requirments. Additional info:
Here is the exact error message: [root@guest1 ~]# authconfig-gtk (authconfig-gtk.py:2487): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 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 [root@guest1 ~]# up2date fontconfig Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4... Fetching rpm headers... Name Version Rel ---------------------------------------------------------- The following packages you requested are already updated: fontconfig
It is really questionable if authconfig-gtk should directly require these fonts. They should probably be rather required by libglade2 or another package in the dependency chain.
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