Comment 7 for bug 6855

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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:28:53 +0100
From: Klaus Ethgen <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#238400: Info received and FILED only (was Bug#238400:
 xfree86: breaks different applications with badvalue error)

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Hello,

after many tests installing different versiones of X i found the
following (it was nightmare as I often had to use dpkg --force-all -P to
deinstall stuff bevore installing other versions):

The problemes are diverted to two cases. One is vmware and another is
audacity.

VMware:
The problem only happens if
1. X the latest 4.3.0 AND
2. The msttcorefonts
are installed OR
only X early version of 4.3.0 (4.3.0-2 definitively) is installed.
(The combination of msttcorefonts and X V 4.2.* seems to work.)

audacity is a bit more stable (well, the problem is more stable):
There the following two cases has to happen:
1. ANY of the X 4.3.0 packages (official or unofficial) AND
2. locales set (in my case to german: LANG=de_DE LC_ALL=de_DE)

I'm not shure where the bug is realy located.

By now I hide the problem by using no msttcorefonts and calling audacity
without any locale environment set.

Regards
   Klaus
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