Troy Dawson wrote: > 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 Here is the bugzilla https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452474 Looks like this affects SL3 as well. There just aren't as many people using openoffice on SL3. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________