WARNING: /usr/bin/sort breaks fonts, thunderbird, and autofs (Re: rawhide report: 20051029 changes)

[John Ellson <ellson research att com>]

Build System wrote:
> coreutils-5.92-1
> ----------------
> * Fri Oct 28 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh redhat com> 5.92-1
> - Finished porting i18n patch to sort.c.
> - Fixed for sort-mb-tests (avoid +n syntax).
>
>   

The latest /usr/bin/sort is causing lots of damage.

See bugs# 166328 and 172028

My suggestion is that you don't update to  coreutils-5.92-1

or if you have, that you downgrade again and reinstall fontconfig to
rebuild its caches that may have been broken:
   rpm -Uvh --oldpackage coreutils-5.2.1-56.i386.rpm
   rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs fontconfig-2.3.91.cvs20051017-1.i386.rpm

Unfortunately, if you have been bitten by this problem, you may not be 
able to read this
since it breaks thunderbird.


John