Re: Gnome completely broken: no characters appear!

[Christophe Combelles <ccomb@free.fr>]

Christophe Combelles wrote:
> Since this morning, after a dist-upgrade on Sid, I cannot use Gnome 
> anymore.
> Everything is OK while on gdm, but after Gnome is started, it cannot 
> display ANY character in the UI. I see the icons, but NO TEXT.
>
> If I start KDE, I have no problem.
> If I start any gtk application from KDE, no problem
>
> The problem only occurs after gnome-settings-daemon is started:
>
> Has anybody seen this too ?

I could recover by doing the following:
start KDE,
start gnome-fonts-properties,
disable everything (antialiasing, hinter, etc...)
restart gnome
reenable antialising,
restart gnome.

strange...