rawhide->fc5; X won't start : Solved

[sean]

Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>I'll do that, but shouldn't fc-cache  -f ( which I've done) do he same 
>>thing?
> 
> You'd think, but there might be a bug somewhere.  I'm really just
> guessing at this point.  The thing is, for a while in rawhide fontconfig
> was really broken and generated broken font cache files.  It seems like
> you might be hitting that.
> 
> 
Great guess. You're my vote for Fedora Man of the Year.

Thanks a lot to all who helped me with this.

sean

>>In any case, I do NOT have a ~/.fonts dir. should I? If so, what do I 
>>install to get it, or is it just user fonts.
> 
> it's just for user fonts, if you don't have it no big deal.
> 
> --Ray
>