Jon Clark wrote: > Eva Myers wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:48:33AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: >> >>> Eva Myers wrote: >>> >>>> Dear All, >>>> After the freetype packages were updated this morning on my SL44 >>>> systems, I noticed that openoffice wasn't working any more - all >>>> documents come up blank. The versions of these packages I have are >>>> shown below: >>>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Looking into this, >>> Is it only OpenOffice affected? Are other programs, such as firefox, >>> having the same problem? >>> >> Firefox "looks different" with pages appearing in a larger "curvier" >> font, but AFAIK only OpenOffice is actually misbehaving. >> Eva. >> > I can corroborate this. A number of SL 4.4 users here have complained > that openoffice is 'not working any more'. When openoffice files are > opened, text is missing from the display. (Not all text is missing, I > think that it is only text written in the default font - I can't tell > you what that font is though.) Using my SL 4.4. system, I have also > noticed that some firefox text looks different and can also report that > Thunderbird has changed the default font in which I write emails. > > Regards, > Jon > I have just verified that on a standard RHEL 4 machine, with no Scientific Linux stuff, that this same problem is happening. So this is clearly upstream. I am looking for a bugzilla report right now. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________