[Ardour-Users] corrupt project, plea for help
Matthias Schuh
m.schuh at neckargeo.net
Mon Jul 14 15:29:11 PDT 2008
Hi Francis,
could this be a permission problem on the fonts as mentioned here
(Ardour unrelated, though):
http://forum.linspire.com/viewtopic.php?t=427624&sid=1601b1c1521c1a30fe9067b6901e4e8f
Cheers,
Mats
francis keyes schrieb, Am 15.07.2008 00:17:
> Hi All,
>
> I've posted this error to the list before with not much response. I've
> also reported it as a bug to Fedora, since I'm using their build of
> Ardour. I now have two Ardour sessions that will not open. These are
> projects that I have spent a lot of time on and really don't want to
> loose. The recordings are very important to me. Anyways... I don't
> know what is appropriate to ask but I will say that (current problems
> aside) I love using Ardour. I am willing to pay somebody or make a
> donation to Ardour if I can get some help with this. If there is any
> way for me to get these sessions to open I would love to know.
>
> The error I get in the terminal window when i try to open the session is:
>
> Pango-ERROR **: Unable to open font file
> /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf for font DejaVu Sans
> 9.9990234375, exiting
>
> aborting...
>
> I checked for this file and it seems to be there:
>
> $ ls -l /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 570468 2007-09-18 19:18
> /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf
>
>
> When this problem first occurred, it was intermittent. I could retry
> opening the session and it would open. But now I get the error every time.
>
> Could someone please advise me on what is the best route to take towards
> getting these sessions to open?
>
> Thanks so much,
> Francis
>
>
>
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