Re: What happened to the fonts?

Marc Aurele La France wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bukie Mabayoje wrote:
> >>>> Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >>>>>    I synced up and built and now, though the server starts fine,
> >>>>> apps can't get any fonts.  Window managers claim they can't find
> >>>>> fontsets like fixed so menus and such have no text in them.
> >>>>> xfontsel seems to work though.  Anyone know what's going on?
> >>>>> It's like the fonts.alias isn't being read anymore.  I can
> >>>>> see fixed in the fonts.alias and I can see the corresponding
> >>>>> font in the fonts.dir and I can see that the font file exists
> >>>>> and can verify that the server acknowledged that font path.
>
> >>>> I am looking into a similar problem too, when xfs is not running.
>
> >>> I've been able to make the fontset message appear with a simple test case
> >>> (holding down the control key and pressing any mouse button while the
> >>> pointer
> >>> is in an xterm).
>
> >>   I don't see that message with xterm.  TWM menus don't work though.
> >> But, if I run TWM remotely from another machine it works.  I think
> >> that implies that it's a problem with the local libraries.  Another
> >> data point, is a test app that opens "fixed" seems to work fine, so
> >> it's not the case that aliases are broken in general - just in some
> >> cases.
>
> >> Bukie, how long have you been seeing this problem?  I updated
> >> yesterday and saw it for the first time.  The last time I updated
> >> was Nov 26. so that gives a pretty large window.

It was reported in the xfree86 by someone else earlier this month. And I was able to reproduce it using their Linux distribution. I can't test it in red hat because Red hat always start xfs when running X. So I am currently trying to debug it using debian. The fact is X should run without xfs running.

>
>
> > Mark (and anyone else, of course),
>
> > Please tell me whether the attached patch fixes (your version of) the
> > problem.
>
> Umm.  That's not right.  Further investigation shows the xterm behaviour I
> was seeing was due to an NLS configuration error.  Also, the TWM menus I see
> look as expected.  Can you narrow down this problem a bit more?
>
> Marc.
>
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