At the suggestion of the GTK+ web site, which I needed to install for Ethereal, I needed to install Pango, and to make that work, needed Fontconfig. I recently ran an installation of fontconfig and it wiped out my X interface. The error message reported a font problem. So, I reinstalled XFree86 (one suggestion) and I'm still getting an error. Here is what it says when I try to start the GUI: Could not init font path element /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! these directories exist with files in them. When the GUI comes up, I just get a gray screen with the X in the middle. None of the user interface elements come up. I have to do a CTRL-ALT-BKSPC to kill the X Server. Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can provide David
