Am 18.10.2006 08:09 schrieb Joerg Sonnenberger:

> Does running fc-cache (as root) fix it?

No. I tried it and got lots of "failed to write cache" message from  
fc-cache. I tried deleting the cache files which didn't help either.

But the error message lead me to a problem[1] of a pkgsrc user on  
Dragonfly BSD. The solution to problem was deleting

     1) the fontconfig package (which is a bit annoying given the number  
of packages
        depending on it)

     2) /usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.conf

     3) /usr/pkg/etc/fontconfig/fonts.dtd

and finally installing fontconfig again.

(I had installed my X11 applications via FTP, fontconfig got pulled in  
as a dependency and I seemed to have overlooked the message about  
deleting those files manually.)

But my X apps are fine now, thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Christoph

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