On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:43:44AM -0600, Scott Raun wrote:
> Or maybe lack of.
> 
> All my system text on my Gnome desktop are little boxes.  I assume
> this means I have a font problem ;-) - either a font file has gone
> missing or bad, or the pointer to it is screwed up.
> 
> I'm running Debian unstable (Woody?).  I just did an apt-get update /
> apt-get upgrade - I've actually traded one X problem for another.  For
> some reason, I wasn't able to log in using the XDM stuff - now I can
> log in, but I can't read anything!

I had a similar problem with certain fonts turning into boxes after
an apt-get upgrade in testing.  Shutting X completely down and
restarting it fixed the problem - I'm guessing I was just referencing
some fonts which were either removed or renamed in the upgrade.

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