Matt R Hall wrote: > Salutations, > > I must say this bug is not the sort of thing you get an error message > for. Basically what happens is if you perform an upgrade to Debian > which upgrades the font server, the font server is stopped by the > preinst script, then the new files are extracted, but then it appears > that the server is not restarted by the postinst script. > > To show what the end result of this is, let's say you run a > dist-upgrade then try to restart X later. If, like me, you use the > font server as your font path to avoid having to manually configure > font directories, you will find that X cannot start the next time > because the font server is not running. > > Since normally one is not used to package upgrades having such cryptic > side effects, I filed this bug after I noticed the problem persisted > through about 2-3 font server upgrade cycles that occurred back at > that time. > > HTH, > Matthew Hall
Ok thanks. Let's keep this bug open for a while and see if anybody reproduces. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]