X11 6.9 -> 7.2 Fixed font missing

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Jun 11 21:53:42 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:01:43PM +0200, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> 
> 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.

Per many emails on this topic, we need someone to follow the UPDATING
directions and submit their build log when they encounter this
particular failure mode.  Can't fix it otherwise.

Kris


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