Re: font problems after upgrade to Mandrake 8.0

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Earlier today I wrote:

    I had gtk 1.3.4 and friends working just fine under Mandrake 7.1.  Then
    I made the mistake of upgrading to 8.0.  Now my scripts and the various
    gtk+ examples I've tried all segfault after emitting the following
    warning:

	** WARNING **: Cannot load font for XLFD '-mdk-helvetica-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-p-60-iso8859-6

I tracked the problem down to the fact that the directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk contained a fonts.dir file but no actual fonts.
I commented out the offending line in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config and
restarted the X font server.  All is (almost) well once again...

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Skip Montanaro (skip pobox com)
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