X11 6.9 -> 7.2 Fixed font missing

Derek Tattersall dlt at mebtel.net
Tue Jun 12 23:59:36 UTC 2007


* Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> [070612 06:16]:
> 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
I have the script log, but I have nowhere to put it for you to access.
Do you have any suggestions?

I also found that emacs had font problems which were fixed by
'portupgrade -f "port*"'

-- 
Best regards,
Derek Tattersall
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