Comment 8 for bug 6855

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 00:31:52 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#238400: xfree86: breaks different applications with badvalue
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reassign 238400 libgtk1.2
retitle 238400 libgtk1.2: GTK+ or GDK may not talk to the XFree86 4.3 X ser=
ver about fonts quite right
thanks

Please see below.

If this problem can be reproduced in any non-GTK+ application, please
let the debian-x list know.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 07:57:46AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hi,
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> Am Fr den 19. M=E4r 2004 um 2:05 schriebst Du:
> > I'm asking you if the bug affects any applications that *AREN'T* linked
> > against libgtk1.2.
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> Ah, oh, not found any...
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> > What do you mean by "remotely from other X"?
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> I login from a system with xserver 4.2.1-12.1 installed to the system
> with the new x installed by ssh. (So the libgtk is used from the host
> with the error but not the Xserver.) With this constalation I can start
> the applications without problemes.
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> > If the X server 4.3.0-5 is running on host A, and the client is running
> > on host A, do you see the problem?
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> yes.
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> > If the X server 4.3.0-5 is running on host A, and the client is running
> > on host B (displaying to host A), do you see the problem?
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> Didn't test this case as I have none of the applications with the
> problem on them. But I can try it with audacity... vmware whould be more
> problematic as it need kernel modules which is somwhere problematic on
> this host.
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> > If the X server 4.2.1-16 is running on host A, and the client is running
> > on host A, do you see the problem?
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> Same as above. But I can not remember such problemes on this host.
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> > If the X server 4.2.1-16 is running on host A, and the client is running
> > on host B (displaying to host A), do you see the problem?
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> No. Then everythink works well. (Version -12.1 on sarge, not -16)
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> Regards
> Klaus
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:28:53PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hello,
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> 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):
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> The problemes are diverted to two cases. One is vmware and another is
> audacity.
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> 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.)
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> 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=3Dde_DE LC_ALL=3Dde_DE)
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> I'm not shure where the bug is realy located.
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> By now I hide the problem by using no msttcorefonts and calling audacity
> without any locale environment set.
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> Regards
> Klaus
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