Re: Problems with X11 and SR10.4

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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:35

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John R Marley (jrm@zeta.ma.adfa.oz.au) wrote:
: First, on a couple of the 425t's, the X server seems to lose track of the
: available fonts.  Reboot the machine, and everything works fine.  Some time
: later, applications start to fail proclaiming that they can't find font such
: and such.  'xlsfonts' lists the font that supposedly can't be found.  Reboot
: the machine and everything works again.  This has been reported on 425t's
: booted off different 5500's.

This was (probably) a bug in X11 R4 (I think as it came from MIT).  What
happened was the font alias-caching would put the wrong directory in the
cache on the first font access and the next access would fail.  What
triggered the problem was the same font in fonts.dir files in different
directories but the font itself wasn't in all the directories (if I
remember correctly).  You can probably work around the problem by
juggling your font path (xset fp) or removing the duplicate fonts.  I
fixed the bug (a while ago) and hopefully it made it into a patch
release.

    Craig Durland       (503) 750-3354
    Hewlett-Packard, 1000 NE Circle, Corvallis, OR 97330
    craig@cv.hp.com

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