Le dimanche 23 janvier 2005 ? 19:29 +0100, Enrique Perez-Terron a ?crit : > I just upgraded my FC2 box to FC3 and found that the display manager gdm > was unable to show the login prompts. Instead it kept restarting every > few seconds, switching to virtual console 7 each time - making it quite > hard and unpleasant to recover. > > It turned out to be due to a config.cache-1 file listing non-existent > Vera.ttf and friends. This was the first font on the list of preferred > sans-serif fonts. > > While this is really something that the gdm maintainers should look at, > it made me think a step further: The distributions' > installation/upgrade software need to check that at least the user root > has a minimally working font configuration, no matter what the users > have left behind of configuration files that worked or did not work with > the previous os. This is all what dependencies are about. I fail to see why things should be different for the font subsystem. As for the problem you are talking about, this is probably a matter for the upgrade scripts. fc-cache should be run automatically after each installation or uninstallation of font packages. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@xxxxxxxxxxxx `. `' joss@xxxxxxxxxx `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?= Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050124/4554b978/attachment.pgp
