Problem updating to 7.2

[j w]

Well, I'm still in the midst of this.
I de/re-installed all my xorg-related ports, and now I don't have any
of the old 6.9 stuff at all

However, when trying to start X, I get the dreaded "could not find
default font 'fixed'" error.
I've looked at every webpage I can find to try to fix this, all to no avail.
I've installed font-alias, I've de/re-installed xorg-fonts, all to no avail.

In the Xorg.0.log, I noticed these lines:

(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc".
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi".
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi").
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi".
	Entry deleted from font path.
	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi").

So I ran mkfontdir as directed, and the log warnings went away, but
still no luck starting X.

Now I notice that the font.dir files in those directories are all
empty (just have '0' on the first line).
And I also notice this in fonts.alias in fonts/misc:
    fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

Indeed I can't find (or don't know where it would be) the iso8859 font.

So now I ask to you - where does a person get a missing font like this?
I would have figured it would be downloaded/installed along with
xorg-fonts, but apparently not.
What's the best way to fix up my (apparently borked) font installation?

Again, I'm mostly a FreeBSD newbie, so turn on your --verbose flags, please.

Thanks
-John


On 7/14/07, j w <jwdevel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again - I sent the previous email (same subject), but switched
> email address.
>
> I'm still having problems upgrading, but have some more info.
>
> Background:
> this is FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE
> This is my "learn unix" machine, so I can just reinstall if needed,
> but I'm trying to learn things the right way.
> I have all my sessions logged, in case anyone wants detailed info.
>
> I had 6.9 installed and working properly, then went to install jEdit
> (a text editor), and got the "/usr/X11R6 has to be a symlink" error,
> and it told me to look at UPDATING.
>
> So I followed the instructions in UPDATING to the letter, but no joy.
> when I got to the "portupgrade -a" step, I got the problem in my previous email.
> I tried with the dev version of portupgrade too, same result.
>
> I also tried running the mergebase script, in order to create the
> symlink, but it complained about a bunch of conflict files.
> Just for fun, I tried, backing up my old X11RC and deleting those
> conflict files.
> Then mergebase ran and created the symlink, but the upgrade of
> xorg-libraries gave compile errors (I guess because some of those
> conflict files were headers that were needed?)
>
> Anyway, I put the old X11RC back, and now I'm trying to figure out
> what to do next.
> In the output of pkg_info, it looks some X-related items are on 6.9
> and others are on 7 - I don't know how that happened (see list at
> end).
>
> I guess next I'll try force-removing the 6.9 versions of things, and
> then force-adding the 7 versions - does that have any hope of working?
> This is pretty much my first experience with portupgrade (:
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> -John
>
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