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

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Tue Apr 29 14:22:14 UTC 2014


On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:03:48 +0100 (BST), Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> 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

What about freetype, libXfont and other stuff related to
fonts? Maybe you need to call "ttmkfdir -o fonts.dir" for
each of the directories listed in xorg.conf?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-fonts.html

Also see 6.5.3 for a longer session of XML fun. ;-)

Your xorg.conf file probably isn't the problem (if everything
font-related is still present and actually installed).


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