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Bug 78697

Summary:	unreadable font in dialog
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	matteo porta <mporta>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	dickey
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OS:	Linux
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Description matteo porta 2002-11-27 18:26:27 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 
1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
while trying to install the nvidia proprietary xfree drivers the xserver didn't 
start up. i got a error dialog saying:
"i cannot start the x server (your graphical interface). it is likely...etc etc"
this dialog had ok and cancel buttons. well i think they were ok and cancel 
buttons because the text was unreadable... choosing the one on the right closed 
the dialog.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. misconfigure appropiately your xfree server
2. reboot your rh8
3.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Lee Yohe 2002-11-27 19:55:37 UTC

Is this due to the video data corruption due to attempted invokation of the
nVidia driver on your system?

Otherwise - you might wish to refer to Bug 78616 - since nVidia _does_ invoke
its own closed, binary-only driver in the kernel and something bad happened to
your system.

Comment 2 matteo porta 2002-11-28 12:12:30 UTC

i dont think the nvidia proprietary driver is the culprit.
i've done this test: renamed the /etc/x11/xf86config file,
so that the xserver can't start. then i've rebooted.
i got the usual dialog with unreadable fonts. then i did
an lsmod, and the nvidia driver wasn't loaded. so it
seems that it's not a problem with nvidia.
i think that the dialog comes from /usr/bin/gdm-binary.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-12-02 18:50:10 UTC

We basically need a unicode-capable ncurses

Comment 4 Thomas E. Dickey 2003-01-12 17:53:05 UTC

From the description, I don't see why this one would be related to dialog or ncurses, since it states that the "text" is unreadable.  A font problem would be (going up) the terminal emulator, some issue with the fonts specified, or the X server.

Comment 5 Eido Inoue 2003-01-20 22:03:31 UTC

sounds like the locale is non-English/non-latin-1, and the console is not
Unicode. Need to know what the output of "locale" is.

Comment 6 matteo porta 2003-01-22 18:00:37 UTC

here's what i get when typing locale into a terminal:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Comment 7 Eido Inoue 2003-02-03 22:44:22 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74911 ***

Comment 8 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:50:13 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.