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Re: xfonts broken on latest updates?



Actually, I reinstalled xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi, restarted X, and
everything was happy again.

--k

> On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 02:33:58AM -0800, Keith Chiem wrote:
> > This is what I have in terms on xfonts packages:
> > ii  xfonts-100dpi   3.3.2.3a-8     100 dpi fonts for X servers
> > ii  xfonts-75dpi    3.3.2.3a-8     75 dpi fonts for X servers
> > ii  xfonts-base     3.3.2.3a-8     standard fonts for X servers
> > ii  xfonts-scalable 3.3.2.3a-8     scalable fonts for X servers
> > 
> > Am I missing a package that I need or did something break during
> > install?
> 
> Hmmm, not sure if it's related or not, but I had a font related problem
> recently, which made gtk programs spontaneously segfault for no apprarent
> reason: as it turned out my fontpaths were commented out when they
> shouldn't have been for some reason.
> 
> I'm not sure of the cause of this -- whether it's my fault, xbase's,
> or something else entirely.
> 
> Check /etc/X11/XF86Config for lines like:
> 
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
>     FontPath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> 
> ...and check that they aren't commented out.
> 
> Cheers,
> aj
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/>
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