Well, I have learned two things, while hopefully waiting for a fix to Red Hat and/or fontconfig, so that I again might use a Graphical User Interface on my Linux machine: 1. Fontconfig cannot be removed. I thought I would try removing fontconfig to see if the system would revert to the old xfs. Nope, fontconfig and RH9 are too intertwined to allow that. 2. Fontconfig won't re-install. I thought I would try reinstalling fontconfig to see if the system would become usable. Nope, the installation freezes when I try to install just fontconfig. I notice that the fontconfig version on my hampered machine is 2.1-9. I wonder if I should try installing a pre-release version? Or, should I just give up and install a fresh version of RH9 and wipe out six months of building the RH8 system? I feel like I'm in a Geek rendition of "Waiting for Godot" -----Original Message----- From: Owen Taylor [mailto:otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 1:00 AM To: jonathan.w.smith@xxxxxxx Cc: fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: RE: Problems going from RH8 to RH9 If you said that, I probably missed that. I just assumed you were doing the reasonable thing and logging in as a user :-) Scratch one theory then. Regards, Owen
