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From: Sire Lancelot du Lac <lancelot@camelot.odyssee.net>
To: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: Netscape Java Fixed - For REAL!! :-)
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It worked for me! Thanks a lot!

Christian Doucet				UNIX/Internet guru
Odyssee Internet Technical Staff		pager: +1 514 897 8070

On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Sujal Patel wrote:

> Alright...  This is the real thing (3 people have reported success with
> this one).  Apparently, XFree86 ships with an broken font database in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc.  There are certain fonts in the database
> which don't exist in the directory, and apparently this is pissing off
> some of our Xservers (it looks like , the Xserver sends a bad request
> error to a Netscape thread that kills the Java applet).
> 
> Here is the fix (as root):
> 	cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> 	/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
> 
> Then you'll need to restart your Xserver (or just run "xset fp rehash" as
> the non-root user).
> 
> 
> Sujal
> 
>