On Wednesday 29 January 2003 04:13, Marshal Newrock wrote: > after the following: > *** emerge baselayout arts kdelibs syslog-ng postfix vim-core vim > > Fonts didn't seem to work anymore. The fonts in my gnome-terminal were > tiny. I hadn't tried to restart mozilla at any point. When I restarted X > to start using KDE 3.1, X wouldn't start, being unable to find the default > font "fixed". Eventually, I looked in the log, and saw it couldn't find > the directory /usr/lib/X11/fonts/. It's correct, this directory doesn't > exist, but /usr/lib/X11/X11/fonts does. After creating a symlink in > /usr/lib/X11 to X11/fonts, X now starts fine. However, while > gnome-terminal looks normal, konsole crashes if I try to start it, and > mozilla simply does not start (process starts consuming all the cpu, and > must be killed). > > I'm assuming this is related to the kdelibs upgrade. I also notice that > while kdelibs was upgraded, kdebase was not. That's probably why konsole > does not work. I have kde installed piecemeal, not as the whole "kde" > package. > > Is there anything else that must be done, or a package I should report a > bug in? >
This is definately an XFree bug. So report it against XFree. For me I also got strange font problems after XFree updates. The directory name really should be /usr/lib/X11/fonts , any other name is a bug on the part of xfree. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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