Meanwhile, behind the facade of an innocent looking bookstore Nick Croft wrote: > Just completed the 3 day marathon dist-upgrade. > All broken packages fixed. Everything working fine! > EXCEPT > In xmms, and Enlightenment menus, there is a prob with the font which > renders each character as a square, made of dots. > > I know that all the font packages were updated, and update-font-alias was run > in each font directory. > > Will this fix itself after I restart the x font server(s). I tried > checking by starting another display on :1, but I guess that would use the > same > font server settings.
I had the same thing happen to me the other day. Don't restart X! I got the error "Can't find font "Fixed"" or something similar. IIRC I did an "update-fonts-alias" for each font dir. I did some other fixing of things as well but I believe that solved my font problem. Good Luck. -- x ----------------------------------- x | Randy Reames | www.reames.org | | Debian User | Web Master | | Sparc/i386 | www.unixreview.com | | icq 115272915 | www.sysadminmag.com | x ----------------------------------- x
