On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:33:08AM -0400, Daniel Katz wrote: > "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps.net> writes: > > > For a couple days now I've been experiencing alot of problems related to > > fonts in X. It must be related to recent upgrade of X or related font > > libraries. Certain font requents seem to be killing alot of > > applications with errors such as: [snip] > > I had a bunch of font problems after an upgrade of unstable, which > ultimately had to do with the fact that my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > didn't know how to deal with the font server. I ended up adding > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/localhost:7100" > EndSection
Well, I didn't track down what was causing the problem, but applied brute force "dpkg --force-depends --purge xfonts*"; then reinstalled and the problem hasn't returned... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
