----- Original message from Chris Hunter on Fri Jul 28 19:39:40 2006 -----
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Anybody having issues with foreign languages on Scientific Linux 4.3 ?
> 
> Everytime I choose a foreign language font (eg hebrew, mandarin) from the 
> menu on gdm, the X session crashes.
> 
> This only seems to happen for my pentium 4 machines. My older athlon xp 
> machines are (so far) not affected by this.
> 
> A new install from the distro CDs does not have this problem. After 24 
> hours and a yum nightly update, this language problem appears.
> 
> Can someone suggest how to debug X session problems ?
> 
> [...]

       Hello,

       I got the same problem on Dell laptops C810 (SL4.1)
       and D520 (SL4.2)

       Looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/gdm/:0.log 
       I noticed that the last line in both file :

       SetClientVersion: 0 8

       is no longer here after a X crash.



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