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

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 02:27:18AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:07:35PM -0700, Bob Nielsen (nielsen@oz.net) wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:13:04AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > 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)?
> > 
> > Thanks for all the suggestions.  I found the answer in another thread
> > which suggested changing the order of the "fonts" section in
> > XF86Config-4.
> 
> ...to what?
> 

Section "Files"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
EndSection


This is from the mail archives (Re: Weird font problem with gnumeric,
gimp and others):

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user20010109/msg00426.html

I have not found any good explanation of why the problem occurred,
however.

Bob