can't startx after xorg upgrade: could not open default font 'fixed'

[Etienne Robillard]

Nice. Which GCC version did you used for compiling
all theses ports ?

I don't get anymore a segfault but still gets that
fatal error message about the missing font 'fixed'...

It looks like the /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc path
gets ignored by the fc-cache utility, even after
having
upgraded the x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps port,
which is kinda odd btw.

Anyway, I guess thats my problem since I've not
bothered following the steps in mergebase.sh nor did
I've used the xorg metaport. 

The funny thing about this 7.2 upgrade quest is that I
didnt even plan to go into it :)

Cheers,

Etienne

--- eculp at encontacto.net wrote:

> Hello Etienne,
> 
> After bringing all 600+ ports on this workstation up
> to date taking  
> advantage of the -P option to portupgrade, I was
> still getting the  
> same message so I bit the bullet and reran
> portupgrade -rRfpy x11/xorg  
> and maybe 12 hours later, Xorg all works beautifully
> plus I have local  
> packages for upgrading my other machines.  I should
> have probably done  
> that from the beginning but who knows, I'm vert
> happy and 7.2 and the  
> localbase change, xorg 7.2 seems to have much better
> drivers.
> 
> Thanks to all who made this very very complex
> upgrade possible.   
> Considering the more than 200 ports that were
> rebuilt with portupgrade  
> -rRfpy x11/xorg with no errors, it is pretty
> remarkable.  THANKS.
> 
> ed
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Etienne
> >
> > --- eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
> >
> >> I get:
> >>    Fatal server error:
> >>    could not open default font 'fixed'
> >>
> >> I have looked at:
> >>    XFree86-4-fontDefaultBitmaps is not used with
> >> xorg
> >>    x11-fonts/font-alias is installed
> >>    xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps is installed thinking
> that
> >> it might sub the Default
> >>    I have checked font.conf for correct path.
> >>    Found a thread on Google but didn't find the
> >> solution.
> >>    xorgcfg gives the same error
> >>    /etc/X11/xorg.conf Font Path is set to
> >> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
> >>
> >> I upgraded with portupgrade -a -P so I guess I
> could
> >> go back and
> >> recompile all but first I would like to know if
> >> anyone else has seen
> >> this after the update and how they fixed it.
> >> Something dumb I'm doing
> >> I'm sure :(
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> ed
> >>
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