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Re: First time installing XFree86
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>
> > > I don't know if the segfault I get starting xedit is
> > > related. All other applications I tried work.
> > >
> > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts is a symlink to
> > > /l/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, which is read-only (directories
> > > dr-xr-xr-x and files -r--r--r--). Since I'm not going to run
> > > mkfontdir I suppose it should work.
> >
> > Are you asking us a question in the above? I didn't see one...
>
> I think you can interpret is as a question. Does xedit work for
> you ? Here it just segfaults at startup. If yes, maybe I should
> install the encodings and fonts to see if I can reproduce it.
>
> Yesterday I compared the contents of both packages with my
> Linux fonts and didn't see any differences, so the only
> difference is the symlink to the XFree86 fonts directory of my
> Linux partition and the read-only flags.
I removed the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 symlink and installed
XFree86-fenc-4.2.0-3 and XFree86-fnts-4.2.0-3. xedit still
segfaults at startup. It isn't an issue for me because I don't
use it. I was just testing the applications, but it obviously
isn't related to the symlink and read-only.
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