corrupt project, plea for help

[francis keyes]

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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[Matthias Schuh]

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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>
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