Re: Massive testing breakage; unstable: no text in GnuCash or E16
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 19:21 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> My latest testing dist-upgrade on Sunday proved a disaster: X crashed
> once, then locked up the display though I could get in via ssh;
> rebooted, but this repeated several times. No point in filing a bug, as
> it's likely due to the X transition...
Might still be useful to prevent similar problems in the future.
> So I upgraded to unstable. The X crash is gone, and nearly everything
> works! *whew* But GnuCash has no text -- where there should be a
> string, there is either nothing, or for a menu header, a single dot.
> Yesterday John Goerzen filed bug 365636 against gnucash, but in his case
> it failed to start at all...
>
> In addition, E16 window title bars have no text, nor do E's cloud
> tooltips or background menus, though minimized window icons do.
Sounds like your server-side X font setup is busted. I'd start by
checking the font paths in the X (font) server.
All of this is more likely related to X than GNOME...
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