Bug#109611: X11-apps only display squares instead of characters
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 08:28:22AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> (btw, this should probably be reassigned somewhere, probably to an
> xfree86 package, since the problem manifests itself when upgrading X)
>
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:32:42PM +0200,
> Dirk Allard <allard@mail.Uni-Mainz.de> was heard to say:
> > Some days ago I upgraded from unstable to the latest version of unstable.
> > Since then only kde apps (and opera) display the correct characters. All
> > other x11 apps only display squares instead of characters. I controlled
> > the font paths in XF86Config-4, they seem to be ok.
>
> Just another datapoint: it was my observation that this problem went away
> after restarting X. My guess is that the upgrade from 4.0.0 -> 4.1.0
> introduced some sort of nasty incompatibility with fonts/font servers.
For me, restarting X didn't help. I had by mistake only upgraded some
of the X-related packages to version 4.1. When I upgraded the rest
(xlibs and xfs wera among these I think) the system started working
again. I may have restarted the system too.
--
Niklas
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