From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 11 20:34:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD4BD16A41A for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:34:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joji@eskimo.com) Received: from ultra5.eskimo.com (ultra5.eskimo.com [204.122.16.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67C713C45B for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:34:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joji@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by ultra5.eskimo.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m1BKYEtD027345; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:34:14 -0800 Received: (from joji@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA13079; Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:29:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:29:13 -0800 From: Joseph Olatt To: Harald Weis Message-ID: <20080211122913.A9514@eskimo.com> References: <20080207124403.GA2792@pollux> <20080210181332.A23724@eskimo.com> <20080211093702.GA2367@pollux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20080211093702.GA2367@pollux>; from hawei@free.fr on Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:37:02AM +0100 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org: Fatal server error X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:34:19 -0000 On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:37:02AM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:13:33PM -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:44:03PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: > > > > > > This is the message (without the stars) I get on a laptop after > > > a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 (previously 6.0). > > > > > > Searching the archives, I found two reasons which do not apply for me: > > > > > > 1. xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.2 is properly installed > > > 2. the same is true for font-alias-1.0.1 > > > > > > A good reason in my case seems to be: all fonts.dir files are empty. > > > > > > Running ``mkfontdir [-e encodings/] misc/'' creates always an empty > > > fonts.dir file, but with the '-e' option a correct encodings.dir file. > > > > > > Conclusion: mkfontdir appears to be broken, or rather mkfontscale as > > > the former is just a single-line shell script. > > > I would check and see if you have the following packages installed: > > 1. font-misc-misc > > 2. font-cursor-misc > > They are installed alright, like all other packages containing the > pattern ``font'' in their name. If "font-misc-misc" and "font-cursor-misc" are installed, I would do the following: 1. Check "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc" directory to see if there are font files there. In my case, that is where the fonts from package "font-misc-misc" and "font-cursor-misc" got installed. (pkg_info -L font-misc-misc-1.0.0 would tell you where the fonts got installed.) 2. Check the xorg.conf (/etc/X11/xorg.conf for me) to see if you have a section similar to the following: Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/local/share/X11/rgb" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" EndSection If the line 'FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"' does not exist, you could get the fixed font error.