From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 15:21:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA05589 for current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA05563 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 15:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA02688; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:21:16 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA09387; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:21:16 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA22171; Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:18:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610082218.AAA22171@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Java,Netscape, & AccelX To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 00:18:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: XFree86-beta@XFree86.Org (XFree86 beta test list) Reply-To: XFree86-beta@XFree86.Org (XFree86 beta test list) In-Reply-To: <19019.844798928@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 8, 96 11:22:08 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: (Sorry for the blatant crosspost. Background: Netcrap recommends people to run a `mkfontdir' in .../lib/X11/fonts/misc/ if they experience segfaults, and it turns out that the actual problem is that the fonts.dir in the XFree86 distribution mismatches with the actually installed fonts if somebody didn't install all the font packages.) > > So yes, this is a reason where the installation script should always > > finally run a `mkfontdir' there. Jordan? > > Actually, this should be part of XF86config since FreeBSD isn't > the only OS which could potentially suffer from this problem. > Rich? :-) Hmm, XF86Config? I thought this was only for creating the config file in /etc. Anyway, i'll move it into the XFree86 beta list then... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)