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From: "John J. Foster" <Gentoo-User@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [SOLVED - new xorg related?] Re: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours!
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:12:09
Message-Id: 20060704000204.GA8426@garbanzo
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Whoa - .xsession-errors at 340MB in less than 24 hours! by "John J. Foster"
1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 04:43:34PM -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
2 > OK, at line 490 (of about 10 million right now) I got this error:
3 >
4 > Warning: Cannot convert string
5 > "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-140-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" to type
6 > FontStruct
7 >
8 > followed by about 10 million of these lines:
9 >
10 > Warning:
11 > Name: textfield
12 > Class: XmTextField
13 > Character '\61' not supported in font. Discarded.
14 >
15 OK, I can reproduce this.
16
17 Open Firefox (www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.5.0.4)
18 Navigate to
19 http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=ILN&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=yes
20
21 I can't tell for sure, but the .xsession-errors grows by about 10K with
22 every loop of the radar. Click on "Stop" to stop the loop, and the log
23 stops growing.
24
25 This is another issue that seems related to the xorg update, as I
26 usually have that page running constantly (with "AutoUpdate is ON").
27
28 Any ideas why this might be happening?
29
30 Thanks,
31 festus
32 --
33 It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a
34 clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.
35 Noam Chomsky

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