WARNING: /usr/bin/sort breaks fonts, thunderbird, and autofs (Re: rawhide report: 20051029 changes)

[Bill Crawford]

John Ellson wrote:
> Build System wrote:
>> coreutils-5.92-1
>> ----------------
>> * Fri Oct 28 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com> 5.92-1
>> - Finished porting i18n patch to sort.c.
>> - Fixed for sort-mb-tests (avoid +n syntax).
>>
>>   
>
> The latest /usr/bin/sort is causing lots of damage.
>
> See bugs# 166328 and 172028
>
> My suggestion is that you don't update to  coreutils-5.92-1
>
> or if you have, that you downgrade again and reinstall fontconfig to
> rebuild its caches that may have been broken:
>    rpm -Uvh --oldpackage coreutils-5.2.1-56.i386.rpm
>    rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs fontconfig-2.3.91.cvs20051017-1.i386.rpm
>
> Unfortunately, if you have been bitten by this problem, you may not be 
> able to read this
> since it breaks thunderbird.
>
>
> John
>
Just run fc-cache -f, should fix it for most. That's why reinstalling 
the fontconfig package would help, but that's overkill.

I also found that having an "empty" font path (i.e. nothing but 
fonts.cache-2, fonts.dir and fonts.scale) seemed to cause me a problem.