xfstt killing Xserver

[Lonni J Friedman]

Wow, talk about a blast from the past.  What ancient distro are you
running that still has both XFree86 & xfstt (both of which are riddled
with security holes now)?

On 9/27/07, Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:
> I have been fooling around with adding true type fonts
> to my system.  I run xfstt. In fact, two versions of the
> daemon start up. I didn't think that was possible. All
> seemed to go well until I tried starting gv, with a blank
> document. Then, the X server just crashes. The only cure
> is to comment out the line:
>
>  FontPath        "unix/:7101"
>
> in my XF86Config-4 file.
>
> Other things, like gimp, work fine, with the true type fonts.
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> Joel
>
>
>
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