xconfig for kernel unreadable

[Phil Schaffner]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 17:16 +0100, Andy Wallace wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 15:04, Kontogiannis Theophanis wrote: 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have FC2 (no updates - just the 4 cd from the site)
> > and I try to make xconfig
> > 
> > whell a window pops up and instead of getting readable information, I
> > get
> > small circles (instead of characters) with various parts filled in
> > black
> > (half, full, quarter.. no circles just spaces....etc)
> > 
> > I have English US and English language only as system wide and during
> > the
> > session!
> > 
> > any hints?
> > 
> 
> I see similar behaviour on FC1 too, with both 2.6.5 and 2.6.6 kernels.
> Not circles like in FC2, but just empty squares. I haven't looked into
> it any further, just used menuconfig instead.
> 
> I checked bugzilla, but couldn't find anything there. When I tried to
> post the bug, there was no kernel-source component available for FC2.
> Perhaps someone with more knowledge/experience could shed some light on
> the problem?

Just a me-too from the past, but works-for-me now.  See "make xconfig,
system-config-packages" thread on fedora-list today.  May want to try
"make gconfig".

Phil