[vox-tech] An error message of some sort in X...

Karsten M. Self vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:30:12 +0000


on Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 08:27:20AM -0800, Richard S. Crawford (rscrawford@mossroot.com) wrote:
> > Richard, you don't mention your distro and/or version, which could be
> > significant.  I recall you mentioning Red Hat in the past -- you still
> > using that?
> 
> Yep.  I'm up to Red Hat 8 now.  I know, I should have waited for 8.2,
> but I was impatient.
> 
> 
> > Locale is also strongly affected by libc.  This is something Debian
> > unstable users may have noted in the past few days, and will likely see
> > again.
> 
> Yep, while I was Googling I saw many reports of this problem from Debian
> users.  No solutions, though.

Ignore the post I just submitted.  I'm confusing font and locale issues.

The suggested fix from me:  don't use broken glibcs, and avoid beta
distro releases containing them.

Peace.

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