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Re: Latest woody upgrade to causes fonts in X to disappear



On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 06:38:09PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> 
> I saw the same in mozilla/kde. But restarting the X-Server solved the problem 
> for me.
> 
> Rainer.

I tried that and several other things after it happened, to no avail. 
Actually I was using kde initially and tried gnome to see if helped (it
made things worse).  Among browsers, mozilla, galeon and netscape have
this problem, konqueror and opera do not.

Bob

> 
> > I did an 'apt-get upgrade' to my testing system yesterday and got > 50
> > MB of upgraded packages(!)
> > 
> > This upgrade included version 4.10 of X. I notice now that on a large
> > number of applications, such as the Gnome desktop and applications
> > which have pop-up or drop-down menus, that the text has been replaced
> > by squares (in fact, this makes Gnome essentially unusable; switching
> > to kde restored much of the functionality).  I assume this means that a
> > particular font got messed up by the upgrade, but I really don't know
> > where to look.  Has anyone else seen this (and found a solution)?
> > 
> > Bob
> > 
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