Error: Widget field13 has zero width and/or height

[Chris]

Greetings,
An update via cvsup (attempting to chase 5.4 stable) on 2006-02-20 @2:40 PM
resulted in a couple of disappointments;
1) after re-building the kernel (cvsupped the SRC on SMP as well) and
installing it. I performed a build/ install world and portupgrade -a.
The portupgrade -a took 2 full days on a base of 246 installed ports.
And resulted in a *465 installed ports base*. Ouch! It's only been
about 5mos. since my last upgrade. While that may seem to some a
fair amount of time. Does it *really* require *doubling* my port
install base?
Anyway, more to my point;
2) xfontsel and any derivitive since this upgrade now always fails.
Examples:

An attempt to use xfontsel always fails with the same results.
As seen here:

~
1:07pm
Fri, 03 mail# xfontsel &
[1] 64410

~
1:07pm
Fri, 03 mail# Error: Widget field13 has zero width and/or height

[1]    Exit 1                        xfontsel



Here's an attempt to use nexfontsel:

~
1:11pm
Fri, 03 mail# nexfontsel &
[1] 64429

~
1:11pm
Fri, 03 mail# Error: Widget dash has zero width and/or height

[1]    Exit 1                        nexfontsel

As you can see, it bails with the same error.

A recent install of nessus also fails with the following error:


:61041): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_text_width: assertion `font != NULL' failed

this message is repeated many times over.
Any relation to the xfontsel errors?

Thank you for all your time and consideration.

--Chris

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