bochs will lose it's font if the screen is refreshed in certain ways.
I don't know what causes it, but I can tell you how to trigger it.

Boot bochs from FreeDos CD, click reset button. You can see the blue
rectangle normally displayed by FreeDos, but all text is missing. You
can still press "1" at the boot prompt to boot FreeDos, you'll see the
cursor fly by like mad, but still with no text.

You can also boot from a MS-DOS boot disk. fdisk /status will cause all
text to be lost.

It can probably be triggered any number of other ways.

severity 174784 normal
thanks

I noticed it already. Some notes:

- the problem only occurs with the X interface
- it doesn't affect graphical systems (like X or framebuffer)

so i reduce severity to normal. got a pair of questions:

have you tried with the same FreeDOS images that bochs hosts upstream?
(so i can point them to them)

you say you're trigging the problem, but i always found it directly. you
mean that on first start it doesn't happen?