[Bug 452568] New: all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452568

           Summary: all X applications fail with X error: cannot find font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 9
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: urgent
          Priority: low
         Component: xorg-x11-fonts
        AssignedTo: xgl-maint at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: sds at gnu.org
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-fonts-bugs-list at redhat.com


Description of problem:

most X applications fail with an X error saying that it cannot find an object.
it turns out the that object is usually a font.
this means that when I start X, all I see is a blank screen - no nautilus, no
panels, no way to start a gnome-terminal or an xterm or firefox.
(I am typing this on another machine, and I do not have ssh access to the
problematic machine atm).
the X log also indicates errors to load modules "record" and "type1".
(apparently, "type1" has been subsumed into "freetype" - what about "record"?).
I have many font packages installed, including the type1 font package.


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

latest ("yum -u upgrade" nightly)

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start x
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
blank X screen, no desktop icons (like home, computer, trash), no panels.
just the mouse pointer which can be moved but which has not thing to click on.

Expected results:
X screen with panels, icons, menues &c.

Additional info:

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