[nflug] apt ineptitude

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Stephen Burke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems I am unable to do an apt-get upgrade ... dist-upgrade without
> screwing things up royally. Not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but
> recently I did apt-get update, upgrade, dist-upgrade (one at a time)
> on an elive (debian) system and apparently lost some crucial fonts.
> Most things still work ok, but the popup automount type windows are
> all showing little squares instead of letters. I get the same in the
> mplayer menu, and gftp is entirely composed of squares. It probably
> happens elsewhere, but that's all I've noticed so far.
>
> I'm assuming that some very basic font has gone missing, but I have no
> idea which or where to begin looking for it. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> S.
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Sounds like something got boned all right. I would start by having a
look at /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/aptitude.log and your /var/log/Xorg logs
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