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I recently upgraded gcc and glibc -- why? they were there... dumb -- and noticed some odd behavior in my XEmacs after doing so. It would edit files without a mode ('Fundamental') just fine. But once I invoked one by opening a known file type (e.g., cperl-mode for a .pm file) or by starting up PCL-CVS, the app froze with an 'X_OpenFont' error indicating 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'. Wacky. ...