From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020606 Description of problem: If the xfs server is restarted, /sbin/service xfs restart then the font server hangs, i.e. running xlsfonts says that pattern "*" is unmatched. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.su 2./sbin/service xfs restart 3.xlsfonts Actual Results: pattern "*" unmatched Expected Results: list of installed fonts Additional info: Seems to fix itself after loginning out and then back in again.
Wrong command... service xfs restart The proper way, is to do: service xfs reload "restart" means "stop xfs entirely, then start it up again", and that causes the xfs<->XFree86 connection to be broken, and fonts no longer work. "reload" on the other hand means "xfs, please reread your configuration and try to pick up my changes". Closing as NOTABUG.