Actually, I was wrong. It turns out prelinking was the culprit. I have no idea what i did yesterday that caused it to suddenly work agian.. but today, after going an upgrade again, my system broke in the same way. I noticed that both upgrades involved installing a new version of openoffice, (1.1.1rc3 two days ago, 1.1.1-1 today).. which i could have sworn I told it never to do prelinking but it insists on doing it anyway...
reguardless, I did a 'sudo prelink -ua', and suddenly everything works again errr... agian. I was even careful this time to run xterm, see it segfault, unprelink everything, run xterm again, and see it work. so i -know- that did it. just archiving this in case someone runs into similar problems. thanks agian. john.c On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, John Clemens wrote: > > Ahh thanks.. > > Actually, i think i fixed it.. turns out i needed to run 'fc-cache -f' as > root. After that, everything started to work again. I'd even tried that > last night, but i ran it as me, not root. whoops. guess i have some more > to learn when it comes to this whole fontcache thing. thank to all who > helped. > > john.c > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Christian Guggenberger wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 07:38, John Clemens wrote: > > > Ok ok, I know this is what i get for running unstable.. but i did an > > > upgrade earlier today, and now suddenly everything that seems to use the > > [...] > > > - If I discover the culprit package, is there a place where i can find the > > > previos sparc debs, or are they all gone once the upgraded ones get pushed > > > to the mirrors? (i'm guessing they're gone, unless they're in my cache'd > > > archive, which i cleaned out a few weeks ago). > > > > > > http://snapshot.debian.net/package/$package > > > > - Christian > > > > > > -- John Clemens http://www.deater.net/john [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 7175925, IM: PianoManO8 "I Hate Quotes" -- Samuel L. Clemens
