On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bukie Mabayoje wrote:
Mark Vojkovich wrote:
   I synced up and built and now, though the server starts fine,
apps can't get any fonts.  Window managers claim they can't find
fontsets like fixed so menus and such have no text in them.
xfontsel seems to work though.  Anyone know what's going on?
It's like the fonts.alias isn't being read anymore.  I can
see fixed in the fonts.alias and I can see the corresponding
font in the fonts.dir and I can see that the font file exists
and can verify that the server acknowledged that font path.

I am looking into a similar problem too, when xfs is not running.

I've been able to make the fontset message appear with a simple test case (holding down the control key and pressing any mouse button while the pointer is in an xterm).


I've also tried this with a build where CHANGELOG 264 is backed out and it still happens so something else is causing this. CHANGELOG 264 is

   264. In font handling, avoid potential security issues related to wrap-around
        of memory allocation requests (Marc La France).

Marc.

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