On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:47:40PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: > * J. D. Kitch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010903 19:16]: > > I had a working GNOME install from Woody. I just updated to Sid, and > > everything seemed to go quite nicely, but now in GNOME, or rather > > anything that uses GTK, I see only a bunch of little squares where I > > should be seeing text. Can anyone tell me what I hosed, and what I > > need to do to correct it? > > I ran into this myself and tried about 1400 different things to fix it. > I did... Problem is I'm not sure which did it ;-) > > I'd suggest two fairly simple things: > > -- Get rid of 'xfs' (if you don't need it -- you *don't* need it for > local TrueType font support, for example)
This appears to be the fix. I had this problem last night on several machines when I upgraded from 4.0.3 to 4.1.0. I restarted X and the fonts were still all screwy. Then I killed xfs .. problem solved. I also restarted xfs and it worked fine from then on. Perhaps there was some sort of protocol change between 4.0.3 and 4.1.0 and the upgrade neglected to restart xfs? I admit that I upgraded while I was running X and xfs probably couldn't have been safely restarted, but it would have been nice to have some sort of notice saying so. > -- Choose either 75dpi or 100dpi xfonts and whichever you don't use, > remove/purge the other. Then go through the various config files and > manually remove the references to them.