[lug] System-wide font change?

[Hugh Brown]

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 11:41, John Dollison wrote:
> After booting my computer this morning, I was dismayed to find that somehow 
> all of my system fonts had been reduced to a size so small that all text on 
> the screen appeared as rows of tiny dots.  I'm not sure what I did, or how 
> to fix it.  The only thing that wasn't affected was the terminal window, so 
> I can still do command-line work.  Icons and window size/positions were also 
> not affected.
> 
> I rebooted again, and everything was back to normal.  I'm running Mandrake 
> 10.0.  What files do I need to look at to see what went wrong, or fix it if 
> it happens again?
> 
> Thanks,
> John

WAG follows:

I would guess that the default font wasn't being found so it substituted
poorly.  The things to look at would be xsession output (usu.
~/.xsession-errors) as well as the font server (does Mandrake use
xfs?).  I'd also make sure that the font files had been processed
appropriately and that permissions were suitable.

I'd also look in the usu. logs in /var/log

Hugh