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From: jmurray@vt.edu (John Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: will FreeBSD run BSDI binaries
Date: 17 Apr 1996 13:50:03 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech
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Message-ID: <4l2sub$6r7@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
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In article <4l0g9i$el4@vixc.voyager.net>,
John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
>John Murray (jmurray@vt.edu) wrote:
>: The only execption is the java in netscape 3.0b2 won't work right initally(
>: a small fix is needed, 2 commands), due a problem with one of the X font
>: distributions. As I said before these productes work fine.
>
>Hey, please post the fix! I've been bothered by this!
>
>Thanks!
Here you go:
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From: Sujal Patel <smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 10:20:19 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Netscape Java Fixed - For REAL!! :-)
Alright... This is the real thing (3 people have reported success with
this one). Apparently, XFree86 ships with an broken font database in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. There are certain fonts in the database
which don't exist in the directory, and apparently this is pissing off
some of our Xservers (it looks like , the Xserver sends a bad request
error to a Netscape thread that kills the Java applet).
Here is the fix (as root):
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
/usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir
Then you'll need to restart your Xserver (or just run "xset fp rehash" as
the non-root user).
Sujal
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