begin: Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > matt, when was the last time you updated your system? it's my understanding
> > that sid regularly breaks for short periods of time.
>
> I update my system pretty much every day. Last update was five minutes ago.
> I suppose something could be screwed up in the unstable tree right now,
> but I've been using sid for about a year now and I've experienced almost
> no problems.
isn't that the nature of unstable?
> I've never really paid much attention to how X fonts work, so I have
> no idea where to start looking for the source of this problem. I guess
> I'll just have to wait for a while and see if any new sid updates make
> the problem go away.
matt, look at the recent archives of debian-user mailing list. if it's a sid
problem, i promise you, it'll be there in full.
pete