X.org: Fatal server error

[Joseph Olatt]

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.
 

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