Well, here is my interesting discovery. I moved all the A* fonts out of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/ttf to a safe location and boom, I was able to launch mozilla, menudrake and drakconf. So I thought I was lucky and just one of these fonts was broken. Then I started to move one font after another back in and each time I was able to launch those programs. But if I reboot, boom, programs won't start anymore. So I move all the A* fonts out of that dir, launched those programs and then rebooted. After the reboot I couldn't launch any of these programs again with the error message about no fonts found. After "playing" a little more with it I came to the conclusion that it doesn't matter which fonts I move around. After a reboot I need to su to root, move a group of fonts (such as A* or a* or B* or any one of them), launch one of the above programs, then quit that program, move the moved fonts back and voila, until the next reboot I can use all the programs with all those fonts.
Serge On Wednesday 15 January 2003 10:17 am, Frederic Crozat wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:40:50 -0600, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 02:54, Frederic Crozat wrote: > >> I've got some clues from Liam (thanks again) and I'll try to reproduce > >> here.. > >> > >> It might be a problem with imported fonts.. Try moving away drakfont > >> directory (/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont) to see if it fixes your > >> problem.. > > > > I totally forgot about that directory. > > > > I moved fonts out of that directory in steps until gnome-alsamixer > > started, then put the last group removed back into the directory, and it > > wouldn't start. Used process of elimination and found that onyx.ttf was > > the font that broke it (imported ages ago). Moved all the fonts back > > (except for onyx.ttf), redid the fc-cache, and everything is running > > just fine. > > Funny, I found the same buggy font in Liam directory.. > > It seems to be a bug in fontconfig which breaks "sans" aliases..
