On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 09:12:00PM -0800, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > The broken font packages about which I carp are indeed broken. They > cause X to not start because of missing or invalid fonts.alias files. > Surely you have noticed the 5+ mail per week on this very list:
<list deleted> Except that most of these, if not all of these, don't have anything to do with having just installed an X update (the only thing that should cause a *font package* to manipulate fonts.alias). So. What's the real problem? I've been bitten by the "fixed font" problem once. It wasn't related to an X upgrade, although I can't tell you what it WAS related to. I always restart X after it gets upgraded, so it wasn't that. Some time after a particular apt-get update/upgrade I installed a new kernel and rebooted the box, then found I couldn't get into X. I don't know what package munged things... I looked at it, shrugged, fixed it, and moved on. It's not a particularly big deal. I know the xawtv package tries to manipulate your X fonts. I have no idea what other packages might. Perhaps someone else on the list does. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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