Adding truetype fonts screws up gnome?

[Geoffrey <esoteric 3times25 net>]

I decided to add a slew of truetype fonts I had laying around to my SuSE 
8.2 box.  All went well and I could access them fine.  Then I tried to 
fire up gtali, and it complains that it can not find any fonts.  Tells 
me to check fontconfig.

I then restarted X and now I have no panels.  If I try to start them in 
a term, I get similar errors.  I did find fonts-config and ran it with 
the 'force' option, but that did not seem to make any difference. The 
resolution at this point was to remove those fonts, but that's not 
exactly what I want.

I did google a reference that noted that that fontconfig would die 
prematurely if it found a collision between fonts.  No resolution though.

Anyone else experience such a problem?

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