> The problem is a broken X package(s). There is probably a better > solution, but I used an older xbase, the one that is about 2 meg in > size (not the newer one in slink) and extracted (*not* by installing) > just the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale directory. This ended the problems > with NS.
My problem was that the locale directory was a sym link to /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/locale/, which was most unfortunately empty. :) I went and grabbed X3323lib.tgz from ftp.xfree86.org and untarred the lib/X11/locale directory, and now everything is happy again. Alan