Re: [SLUG] dot-square font in E after dist-upgrade

[Craige McWhirter <Craige.McWhirter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My fix for this, for the archives was to do the following:

- apt-get remove xfonts-base
- dpkg --purge xfonts-base
- apt-get install xfonts-base
- Ran mkfontdir in every font dir
- Reordered my font listing in XF86Config-4 to have misc first.

It may not have been necessary to do all of these but it was after them
that fonts sprung to life again. I also do nnot recall if I got these
steps from the list or the 'net. My apologies if they've already been
posted.

Thus spake Craige McWhirter (Craige.McWhirter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx):

> Thus spake Andrew Bennetts (andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:54:42AM +1000, 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.
> > [..snip..]
> > 
> > I recently upgraded my debian unstable box to X 4.1.0, and fonts in many
> > applications just showed boxes instead of letters.  I specifically
> > remember mozilla and X-Chat as being affected, but there were others.
> > Restarting X didn't help, but forcibly killing then restarting xfs did
> > IIRC.  I don't use E (I'm a pwm fan), so I can't comment on what might
> > have happened to it.

-- 

Cheers,
      Craige.

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