On Monday 03 Feb 2003 23:45, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Monday 03 Feb 2003 22:16, Mark Saunders wrote: > > I'm running 1.4 unstable (~X86). > > > > Yesterday i emerged XFree 4.2.99.4. > > Now GDM, and Mozilla won't run. > > I unemerged and re emerged both with no success. > > > > I also recently emerged KDE 3.1 and unemerged KDE 3.0.5a. > > Now all the fonts in KDE are messed up, they don't seem to be > > anti-aliased, but anti-alias is checked > > in the control centre. > > > > My colleague who also runs gentoo 1.4 on his > > work system experienced the same. > > > > Has anyone else experienced similar problems? > > Me too :-( I couldn't understand why suddenly mozilla was silently > refusing to start and gramps was giving this: > $ gramps > No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig > library is not correctly configured. You may need to > edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information > about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual > page and on http://fontconfig.org > > ...until I realised that `emerge -u world` had just upgraded xfree to > 4.2.99.4. > > I'm now in the process of going back to xfree-4.2.1 > I stopped X, unmerged xfree and emerged xfree-4.2.1. Now mozilla works again (with 4.2.99.4, strace revealed it was segfaulting) and gramps works again. Seems to me xfree-4.2.99.4 is a killer :-(
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