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Re: Problem with 9.3 update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 14 18:46:10 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jonathan R. Birge" <birge@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0407141639030.1491@birge.mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:46:06 -0400
On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:50, Jonathan R. Birge wrote:
> My grub.conf file got screwed
> up somehow during the upgrade. All the Athena entries had the 'single'
> command added to them when the kernel entries were updated.
That sounds like a potential bug in our software, but since I haven't
heard any other instances of it, I'll leave it alone for now.
> I'm also having problems with fonts changing after the update. For
> example, some of the fonts in Gnome are now tiny. Changing the desktop
> font to be larger then makes them normal, but now other fonts are huge.
> Also, changing the window font results in really crazy fonts being used
> (i.e. not the one you selected). Has this been experienced by others or
> is this suggestive of my install having gone bad?
I've seen an as-yet-undiagnosed bug where the initial gnome-terminal
occasionally comes up with a too-small font for some reason, but
subsequently created terminal windows are fine. Could that explain your
problem?
