Package: fontconfig Version: 2.3.1-2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
After upgrading fontconfig, X would not start on boot up. gdm was failing to start with error "failsafe dialog failed" tried dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig and it seg faulted on fc-cache (line 144 of the postinst) ran fc-cache with the debug option and found the font files which caused it. Small-Fonts_r400-3.bdf Small-Fonts_r400-5.bdf Small-Fonts_r400-6.bdf Symbol_r400-13.bdf Symbol_r400-16.bdf Symbol_r400-19.bdf Symbol_r400-20.bdf Symbol_r400-21.bdf Symbol_r400-23.bdf Symbol_r400-27.bdf Symbol_r400-33.bdf Symbol_r400-35.bdf Symbol_r400-43.bdf removed them from /usr/X11R6/lib/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc fc-cache again everything is back to normal... don't know if this should be critical, but it sure was a pain in the @$$ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages fontconfig depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii defoma 0.11.8-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f ii gsfonts-x11 0.17 Make Ghostscript fonts available t ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.1-2 generic font configuration library ii msttcorefonts 1.2 Installer for Microsoft TrueType c ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-3 The Bitstream Vera family of free ii ttf-freefont 20031008-1.1 Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv -- debconf information: * fontconfig/rendering_type: Bytecode interpreter (CRT screens) fontconfig/overwrite_existing_local_conf: false * fontconfig/subpixel_rendering: Automatic * fontconfig/enable_bitmaps: true * fontconfig/hinting_type: Autohinter fontconfig/enable_autohinter: false -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
