[ft] FreeTypeRasterizeGlyph() ?

[n l]

Hi, I'm trying to figure out why, after debian etch's recent upgrade
to xorg 7, emacs menu and buffer fonts look bad. I noticed that every
time I start emacs, the following message gets appended a few times to
Xorg.0.log:

Warning: FreeTypeRasteriseGlyph() returns an error,
       so the backend tries to set a white space.

My question is, what's causing this? Is it an emacs, freetype, or xorg
problem, or something else, and should I send a bug report to
somewhere on debian's lists?
I appreciate any help.

Some background:
I already know about the change in the locations of fonts and my font
paths have been changed to
   FontPath        "unix/:7100"
   FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
   FontPath        "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
   FontPath        "/usr/local/share/fonts/truetype"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID"
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
   FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"  ##
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"  ##
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" #
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" #
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"  ##
   FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"  ##

If I comment out all the old /usr/lib/X11 entries, then emacs doesn't
find any fonts at all and outputs squares where letters ought to be.

Also, I've reinstalled all the packages related to fontconfig and
freetype--to no avail.

Thanks.
Nathan Lloyd