Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:It was reported in the xfree86 by someone else earlier this month. And I was able to reproduce it using their Linux distribution. I can't test it in red hat because Red hat always start xfs when running X. So I am currently trying to debug it using debian. The fact is X should run without xfs running.
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>>> 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 don't see that message with xterm. TWM menus don't work though.
>> But, if I run TWM remotely from another machine it works. I think
>> that implies that it's a problem with the local libraries. Another
>> data point, is a test app that opens "fixed" seems to work fine, so
>> it's not the case that aliases are broken in general - just in some
>> cases.>> Bukie, how long have you been seeing this problem? I updated
>> yesterday and saw it for the first time. The last time I updated
>> was Nov 26. so that gives a pretty large window.
Sorry, I my mail system crashed and I lost some mail. That is why I didn't respond to your message.> Mark (and anyone else, of course),
> Please tell me whether the attached patch fixes (your version of) the
> problem.Umm. That's not right. Further investigation shows the xterm behaviour I
was seeing was due to an NLS configuration error. Also, the TWM menus I see
look as expected. Can you narrow down this problem a bit more?Marc.
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