X.org: Fatal server error

[Harald Weis]

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.

In the meantime, following an off-list advice, I've used truss(1).
I've got now nice truss.out files for two machines (same release):
mine which is good and the other machine (in fact a desktop as well)
which has the bug.

The trouble is that I'm unable to interpret the difference. For example:
Every line in the bad truss.out file is prefixed with ``2682: ''.
Perhaps a line number? But of which file ?
Couldn't find anything within the sources of truss or mkfontscale.

No reply yet from the maintainer for mkfontscale x11 at FreeBSD.org.

Thanks for any help,
Harald
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FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:56:09 UTC 2007