If the xfs config file (/etc/X11/fs/config) contains an entry like: catalogue = /path/to/font/dir1, /path/to/font/dir2, /path/to/font/dir3, /path/to/font/dir4 then when chkfontpath tries to add /path/to/new/font/dir to this, the resulting entry is (note the missing comma on the first line): catalogue = /path/to/new/font/dir /path/to/font/dir1, /path/to/font/dir2, /path/to/font/dir3, /path/to/font/dir4 This one bit me when I upgraded to netscape-common-4.72-6 which runs: /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -q -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi on install. Incidently, are the -q & -a flags to chkfontpath documented anywhere?
*** Bug 13963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
fixed in version 1.8 in rawhide.