after latest Xorg update: Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list!

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bris.ac.uk
Tue Apr 29 13:04:20 UTC 2014


Hi

I just updated Xorg to:

# pkg info -xo xor
xorg-fonts-7.7                 x11-fonts/xorg-fonts
xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.7          x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-100dpi
xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.7           x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-75dpi
xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.7        x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-cyrillic
xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.7     x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps
xorg-fonts-truetype-7.7_1      x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-truetype
xorg-fonts-type1-7.7           x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-type1
xorg-macros-1.19.0             devel/xorg-macros
xorg-server-1.12.4_7,1         x11-servers/xorg-server
#

With the old /etc/X11/xorg.conf, I get these problems:

[  1636.088] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mis
c/, removing from list!
[  1636.089] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
/, removing from list!
[  1636.091] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF
, removing from list!
[  1636.091] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Typ
e1/, removing from list!
[  1636.092] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100
dpi/, removing from list!
[  1636.093] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75d
pi/, removing from list!
[  1636.094] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ter
minus-font/, removing from list!
[  1636.094] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dej
avu/, removing from list!
[  1636.095] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/mis
c/, removing from list!
[  1636.095] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF
/, removing from list!
[  1636.095] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF
/, removing from list!
[  1636.096] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Typ
e1/, removing from list!
[  1636.097] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100
dpi/, removing from list!
[  1636.097] [dix] Could not init font path element /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75d
pi/, removing from list!

And if I still launch X, then the fonts are really
not found. However, they are all there:

# ls -al /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
total 200
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel    512 Mar 18 11:19 .
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel    512 Apr 29 13:06 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  66048 Mar 18 10:56 100dpi
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  66048 Mar 18 10:56 75dpi
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   1024 Mar 18 10:53 OTF
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 18 10:53 TTF
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   1536 Mar 18 10:55 Type1
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   2560 Mar 18 10:56 cyrillic
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   1024 Mar 27 10:07 dejavu
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel   1024 Mar 18 10:27 encodings
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 12 16:16 local
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  12800 Mar 18 10:56 misc
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel   6144 Mar 18 11:19 terminus-font
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 18 08:47 util
#

Please help

Thanks

Anton



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