Fonts in Icewm, but not elsewhere, messed up

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

After an upgrade on my Sid box a month or so ago, some of the fonts in 
Icewm, like on the taskbar and the logout dialog window, have turned 
into what I can only describe as ASCII chars. I've seen no problems 
elsewhere. Thinking it was just some sort of instability in the unstable 
branch, I switched over to KDE temporarily. I've also tried other wm's, 
like XFWM/XFCE. No problems anywhere except Icewm.

Then a day or two ago I updated another Sid box, and it wound up NOT 
having the font problems in Icewm. So that made me go "hmmm". Back to 
the first box I went, and I deleted my ~/.ice* directories. No change. I 
logged in as a different user; still had the font problems. I created a 
brand new user; still had the font problems. I did an "apt-get remove 
-purge icewm", followed by "apt-get install icewm". Still had the font 
problem. I played with the font entries in XF86Config-4. Still had font 
problems. I moved XF86Config-4 out of the way and created a new one via 
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Still had font problems. I swapped 
video cards (of course, entailing a power-off), created a new 
XF86Config-4, purged icewm, created a new user, and still had font problems.

OK, where's the problem? Or how do I troubleshoot this further?

Thanks!

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Kent