X11 6.9 -> 7.2 Fixed font missing

Tilman Linneweh arved at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 11 21:50:04 UTC 2007


On Jun 9, 2007, at 20:43 , Derek Tattersall wrote:
> I did the upgrade on an AMD64 6.2 STABLE box from 6.9 to 7.2.   
> Following
> Kris's directions, the upgrade went smoothly.  However, after I used
> Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf, when I attempted to test  
> it,
> it reported that the fixed font could not be found.  After reading the
> X11 list, it seems that others have had this problem.  I reran fc- 
> cache,
> and it does not cache any of the fixed fonts.  I had to run by hand
> mkfontdirs in each of the directories in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts.
>
> In comparing this installation to one on a current box that was  
> recently
> installed from the May snapshot, Most everything looks the same,  
> the few
> differences in package lists are due to apsfilter and friends being
> installed on the current box.  The xorg.0.log shows no EE entries,  
> just
> the fixed font missing message.  What am I missing here, and what  
> is the
> recovery path?

I had this on one STABLE machine, were i upgraded via packages.

I followed the Xorg FAQ http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages and  
decided
to reinstall font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc from ports and it  
worked.


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