[PlanetCCRMA] ardour starts - then gone!

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> But - after starting and playing around with Ardour a few times, it now will 
> not load.  I'll start the jack server, then Ardour. The splash screen starts, 
> then it kicks off. Starting from a terminal, the following message appears. 
> 
> Ardour/GTK 0.377.1 running with libardour 0.685.0
> Loading UI configuration file /etc/ardour/ardour_ui.rc
> Loading system configuration file /etc/ardour/ardour_system.rc
> Loading user configuration file /home/steve/.ardour/ardour.rc
> The font "-*-charter-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all 
> the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915"
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-15")
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-15")
> The font "-*-charter-bold-r-*-*-*-180-*-*-*-*-*-*" does not support all 
> the required character sets for the current locale "en_US.iso885915"
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-15")
>   (Missing character set "ISO8859-15")
> 2070: received signal 11
> ardour is killing itself for a clean exit
> Killed

I would try erasing or changing the name of the ardour preferences
directory in your account, should be a directory named ".ardour", just
do a "mv .ardour .ardour-old". 

You were not running as root right?
-- Fernando