After today's rawhide updates, cannot start Xorg (complains about missing "fixed" font)

[Jim Cornette]

Miles Lane wrote:
> Hi.  I am running lynx in order to send this
> message, since I cannot start Xorg.  Is anyone
> else seeing this problem?  I have an Intel i915
> video chip in my laptop.  I have checked the
> fontpath, fonts.alias and fonts.dir files and
> everything looks sane.
> Thanks!
>        Miles
> 

The same problem with not being able to start X happened to me today. I
am currently switched over to FC6 since X is not working for me either
on that system.

I have dual head with primary as MGA and secondary as NV.

See bug below for rollback of packages.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216661
libXfont-1.2.3-3.fc7
 > --------------------
 > * Mon Nov 20 2006 Adam Jackson <ajax redhat com> 1.2.3-3.fc7
 > - libXdmcp-1.0.2-namespace-pollution.patch: One more collision avoider.
 >
 > * Mon Nov 20 2006 Adam Jackson <ajax redhat com> 1.2.3-2.fc7
 > - libXfont-1.2.3-namespace-pollution.patch: Hide some symbols from 
the dynamic
 >   linker to avoid colliding with other libs.
 >
 > * Mon Nov 20 2006 Adam Jackson <ajax redhat com> 1.2.3-1.fc6
 > - Update to 1.2.3
 >
 > libXfontcache-1.0.3-1.fc7
 > -------------------------
 > * Mon Nov 20 2006 Adam Jackson <ajax redhat com> 1.0.3-1.fc7
 > - Update to 1.0.3
 >
 > * Wed Jul 12 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating redhat com> 1.0.2-3.1
 > - rebuild
 >
 > * Mon Jun 05 2006 Mike A. Harris <mharris redhat com> 1.0.2-3
 > - Added "Requires: xorg-x11-proto-devel" to devel package for 
xfontcache.pc
 >

Jim

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