I have been using Mandrake 6.1 for a day or so
and have found a couple of glitches.
First problem:
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There is a font file named :
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ttfonts/beast wars.ttf
As you can see there is a space in the filename. This
filename is literally begging for trouble. It took
me alot longer to get the true type fonts working
on my M6.1 system because of this file. The problem
is that if you add fonts to that directory and then
run :
ttmkfdir -o fonts.scale;
mkfontdir;
The process will create fresh fonts.scale and fonts.dir
files that xfs does not like a single bit. Infact it
hates it. :) xfs will not start the next time and
this will prevent a successful startup of X. There are
a couple of other font files in that directory that
generate error messages : dienasty.ttf and ikarv.ttf
I dont know how fatal those errors are, but I removed
those files immediately also.
Second problem:
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This is a minor one. There are 2 entries in the /etc/group
file.
cdwriters::64::
cdwriter:x:80:
Someone is obsessed with cdwriters. And they put an extra
colon in the first entry to show their affection. :)
Thats all for now. Oh and we all know that pcmcia stuff
doesn't work for installs. The worst bug in my opinion
is the Netscape bug, where most of the keyboard shortcuts
dont work. I have been told that it is a feature, but ack!
its a horrible feature. I know there is a workaround but
please understand that you are confusing the hell out of
people who haven't discovered the fix.
Mubashir
