On Friday 27 October 2006 11:53, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:30:00 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > I upgraded my debian testing system y'day and now the type on many of the > > frame areas of diff' applications has been replaced by empty boxes. this > > is true on the frames of the gnome-terminal windows. gimp is unuseable > > because of the problem. and my login screen has only boxes for type on > > it. i'm running debian testing and gdm. when i do: > > > > pstree -p |grep X > > > > i get: > > |-gdm(4683)---gdm(4684)-+-Xorg(4701) > > I would start with looking for error messages and warnings in the X log: > $ egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Furthermore, check .xsession-errors for font/rendering/X-related > messages. > > Start gimp or another problematic application from the command line and > hope for output which helps to identify the source of the problem. >
Florian, thanks for the help. indeed, i looked in all those places and found lots of complaining. and in .xsessions-errrors i found the instruction to run pango-querymodules. i ran it and the problem was fixed. now i find the following in .xsessions: bound (gnome-terminal:12060): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_display: assertion `(anid != 0)' failed Failed to retrieve terminal server from activation server (gnome-terminal:12073): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixmap_foreign_new_for_display: assertion `(anid != 0)' failed should i fix this? what effect is the problem likely to have on my system? thanks, tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
