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*"'
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Best regards,
Derek Tattersall
dlt at mebtel.net dlt666 at yahoo.com dtatters at gmail.com
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