Hi Keith, Please I need your help. I installed MS fonts and couple of weeks went by and once I rebooted box.. X did not come up. I got the error: > No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig > library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit > the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about > fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual > page and on http://fontconfig.prg and all searched on google suggest to run fs-cache but it did not help. So finnally I moved /usr/share/fonts/MS_fonts to ~ and X came up. Then I found your post: Around 12 o'clock on Feb 27, Peter Chapman wrote: > No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig > library is not correctly configured. You may need to edit > the fonts.conf configuration file. More information about > fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual > page and on http://fontconfig.prg I fixed a problem related to this last night. As you uncovered, fontconfig bails out of matching when it discovers any inconsistencies in the internal state of fonts. To save memory, font state is shared across fonts at many levels, one of the levels is that identical lists of values are stored as a single value list. In the case uncovered last night, one font had a list containing the value '6.0' and another with the value '6'. The 'identical' test said those were the same, but the matching code didn't allow floating point values where integers were required, so it bailed out. That fix was easy, but I'm going to go back and consider how to best deal with fonts that don't conform to the matchers expectations. -keith and wondering how can I " test said those were the same" find out which font is causing me a trouble? is there a tool for checking font integrity? I really want those fonts on my linux box. So please help.. :( Thanks you in advance for your help, Alex
