Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:59:28 -0400 From: Derek Tattersall <dlt@mebtel.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X11 6.9 -> 7.2 Fixed font missing Message-ID: <20070612235928.GA12162@lorne.arm.org> In-Reply-To: <20070611215341.GA4053@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20070609184313.GA1917@lorne.arm.org> <4BF813E3-4EDB-4E41-8526-84CA71B57A48@FreeBSD.org> <20070611215341.GA4053@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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* Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [070612 06:16]: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:01:43PM +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote: > > > > On Jun 9, 2007, at 20:43 , Derek Tattersall wrote: > > >I did the upgrade on an AMD64 6.2 STABLE box from 6.9 to 7.2. > > >Following > > >Kris's directions, the upgrade went smoothly. However, after I used > > >Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf, when I attempted to test > > >it, > > >it reported that the fixed font could not be found. After reading the > > >X11 list, it seems that others have had this problem. I reran fc- > > >cache, > > >and it does not cache any of the fixed fonts. I had to run by hand > > >mkfontdirs in each of the directories in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts. > > > > > >In comparing this installation to one on a current box that was > > >recently > > >installed from the May snapshot, Most everything looks the same, > > >the few > > >differences in package lists are due to apsfilter and friends being > > >installed on the current box. The xorg.0.log shows no EE entries, > > >just > > >the fixed font missing message. What am I missing here, and what > > >is the > > >recovery path? > > > > I had this on one STABLE machine, were i upgraded via packages. > > > > I followed the Xorg FAQ http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages and > > decided > > to reinstall font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc from ports and it > > worked. > > Per many emails on this topic, we need someone to follow the UPDATING > directions and submit their build log when they encounter this > particular failure mode. Can't fix it otherwise. > > Kris I have the script log, but I have nowhere to put it for you to access. Do you have any suggestions? I also found that emacs had font problems which were fixed by 'portupgrade -f "port*"' -- Best regards, Derek Tattersall dlt@mebtel.net dlt666@yahoo.com dtatters@gmail.com
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