Hi, I'm new to Linux. Day two, and I've already broken something :-) Running RH 7.3, dual-booting with WinXP.
I was using the KDE font installer to browse to a fonts folder on my WinXP disk, and install a few fonts from there. That went OK, although it took ages to read the contents of the Windows folder, because there are thousands of fonts in there. But I could preview the fonts, and install them with no problems. The problems began when I went to leave the font installing untility. The hard disk went into some hard core thrashing that it didn't recover from. The screen didn't literally freeze, but close enough. The cursor would move every thirty seconds or so. I waited about 15 minutes, thinking that the system would sort itself out, that it was just clearing a cache or something, and that it was taking a long time because of the huge number of fonts it had been forced to read. Nothing happened, though, and the thrashing continued. So I had to hit the reset button. The system rebooted fine. Now, however, I can't install any more fonts. Not making the same mistake as before, I put a few fonts that I want to install in a seperate folder, and browsed to that folder. But when I select the font, there's no preview available (the first sign of trouble), and when I try to install, I get a dialog box telling me that it can't do it, because the font file is invalid or corrupted. Which it isn't, as this happens with any font. So, do I need to reinstall something, or do I need to find a corrupted cache file somewhere and delete it, or what? Any ideas? Thanks, David -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
