On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 09:34, Serge Pl�ss wrote: > 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.
Instead of rebooting, run "fc-cache -f" after each font move, before trying the program. I was not able to start any of the programs until the bad font was removed. TTFN, Lonnie Borntreger
