FC5T2 problems: gnome-terminal, emacs and evolution

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:55:44AM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:35:02PM -0500, gb spam wrote:
> >
> >>On 1/17/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:17:50PM -0500, gb spam wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>>*)  emacs is broken. [..] I just get empty squares
> >>>>>where each letter should be.
> 
> See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174416>.
> 
> >>>Odd. I have the 75dpi package installed, and I see the problem.
> 
> Need to "mkfontdir /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi".
> 
> >>forgot to mention, had to do a service xfs restart too.
> 
> > I restarted X. No go. I shut X down completely, and restarted it. That
> > worked, and emacs worked correctly.
> 
> Yep, you need to restart xfs and X after running mkfontdir.
> 

Thank you. I was coming to the conclusion that you need to do all
three: mkfontdir, then restart xfs, then shut X down completely and
restart it. For those of us who use kickstart files, adding a suitable
mkfontdir to the post-installation stuff should be an acceptable
workaround.

I read the bug report to which you referred,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174416. Please
check to see that all font packages do the right thing. I installed
several fonts. If the scripts are missing only from the one package,
doing so should have cured the problem. If I recall correctly, it did
not.

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