Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:13:33 -0800 From: Joseph Olatt <joji@eskimo.com> To: Harald Weis <hawei@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org: Fatal server error Message-ID: <20080210181332.A23724@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <20080207124403.GA2792@pollux>; from hawei@free.fr on Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:44:03PM %2B0100 References: <20080207124403.GA2792@pollux>
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On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:44:03PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: > Hello All, > > *** Fatal server error: > *** could not open default font 'fixed' > > 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. > > xorg-7.2, xorg-fonts-7.2 and all the rest are properly installed. > The instructions of the 20070519-section in UPDATING have successfully > been executed. > > Fortunately, lynx and elinks work alright. > > Needless to say that I've portupgrade'd both mkfontdir and mkfontscale > with the '-f' option, and that my ports tree is portsnap'ed up-to-date. > > What else could I do to find the bug ? > > Thanks in advance, > Harald I would check and see if you have the following packages installed: 1. font-misc-misc 2. font-cursor-misc They are in: /usr/ports/x11-fonts regards, joseph
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