Fontconfig troubles...

[Luke Macken]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 01:47 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> So... I upgraded to rawhide today, to be greeted by:
> - gdm, gnome, kde, kdm, windomaker, rhgb... not working, and failing 
> with the most uninformative messages...
> 
> I eventually managed to get into a twm shell somehow (through xdm), and 
> established gnome programs segfault in libfontconfig: FcCreateStrList 
> (or maybe it was FcStrListCreate).
> 
> However, after rebuilding the package from source rpm, all problems are 
> gone. Why?

Interesting issue (although I definitely remember you having worse
problems with dwalsh's laptop over the summer ;).  I would say bugzilla
would be your best bet though.

> Also, that reminds me once again how hard it is to recover from 
> rawhide.  Why can't old versions of rpms be kept on the download server, 
> to aid users in the case of a critical failure?

To keep people on their toes :)

You can most likely recover from a broken upgrade by digging
around /var/cache/yum for old packages, assuming you don't `yum clean`
on a regular basis.

luke