Hi, Ever since my last reboot, the 'everybuddy' program has been misbehaving. It displays all messages sent to me as little dashed boxes. It displays all timestamps as little dashed boxes. It displays all text I send as normal text. I havn't noticed this behavior in any other program. I made many upgrades a while back. This most recent reboot may have been the first time the upgraded X server was started, I'm not sure. Before I start randomly upgrading more packages in hopes that it solves the problem, I'd like some confirmation of the right direction to go. First question to clear the air: do all xfree86*, xserver*, and xfonts* packages share a version numbering system (roughly)? In other words, does xfonts-75dpi v3.X necessarily go with xfree86 v3.X, which might be provided by xserver v3.X? Regardless of the answer to that one, does the mix of v3 and v4 of the following packages have anything to do with it? (pardon the long lines) green:~# dpkg -l xserver* ii xserver-common 4.0.3-4 files and utilities common to all X servers ii xserver-svga 3.3.6-11potato32 X server for SVGA graphics cards ii xserver-vga16 3.3.6-11potato32 X server for VGA graphics cards ii xserver-xfree86 4.0.3-4 the XFree86 X server green:~# dpkg -l xfont* rc xfonts-100dpi 4.0.3-4 100 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-75dpi 4.1.0-5 75 dpi fonts for X ii xfonts-base 4.0.3-4 standard fonts for X rc xfonts-cjk 3.3.6-2 basic Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts for X rc xfonts-cyrillic 4.0.3-4 Cyrillic fonts for X ii xfonts-pex 3.3.6-2 fonts for minimal PEX support in X rc xfonts-scalable 4.0.3-4 scalable fonts for X How would I find out which of the xserver packages the program that's running my X display comes from? ben@green:~$ ps auwx <snipped> root 21662 17.8 13.4 18356 8560 ? S< Sep28 312:27 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp ben@green:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/X11/X dpkg: /usr/bin/X11/X not found. Is the xfonts-pex something I need? I don't think I have any 3d stuff on my machine. How would I find out if I have any packages that depend on a particular package? In general, xfonts-scalable something useful? (yeah, I know you don't know what I do with my machine -- general laptop. write papers in emacs, surf the web in netscape, read mail in an xterm, ... normal stuff.) Thanks for any help, -ben -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Ben Hartshorne ...Discarding smoothly, as we disembark, ben@hartshorne.net All thoughts that held us wiser for a moment ben.hartshorne.net Up there, alone, in the impartial dark. -M. Oliver My PGP key is at /pgp.txt. Please encrypt all communications.
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