font problem after upgrade to 7.2

Yuri Pankov yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 17:37:33 UTC 2007


On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:18:47PM -0400, Eric W. Bates wrote:
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> I'm getting the error:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.2
> 
> is installed.
> 
> I have run:
> 
> portupgrade -f fonts*
> 
> on the off chance that things were out of order somehow.
> 
> Which fonts are considered 'fixed' from the xserver's point of view? I
> have never noticed anything in xorg.conf that refers to 'fixed'.
> 
> There are 411 files in my /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory.
> 
> In comparing the contents of misc with an older xorg install I noticed
> that fonts.alias and fonts.cache-1 are both missing from all fonts
> directories. Shouldn't fc-cache create those files?  I have run fc-cache
> multiple times (so have the various install scripts). I have reinstalled
>  fontconfig.
> 
> What is the xserver actually looking for when it wants 'fixed?'

You need to install x11-fonts/font-alias port, which includes needed
fonts.alias files.

> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> - --
> Eric W. Bates
> ericx at vineyard.net
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HTH,
Yuri


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