bug#152736 X doesn't start due to no cursor font!
I continue to have problems with this bug. Now X refuses to start
because it can't locate the default cursor font. Here's the message:
Fatal server error:
could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
But I do have a cursor font, even though I don't have xfonts-gimpers 1.8
installed (it refuses to install anyway). But I do have xfonts-artwiz
installed. I purged xfonts-gimpers from my system and now X has a brain
tumor. This is a critical bug and should have been fixed by now.
apt-get install xfonts-gimpers
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
xfonts-gimpers
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/26.5kB of archives. After unpacking 81.9kB will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package xfonts-gimpers.
(Reading database ... 91196 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xfonts-gimpers (from .../xfonts-gimpers_1.8_all.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-base by xfonts-gimpers' clashes with `diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-base by xfonts-artwiz'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-gimpers_1.8_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-gimpers_1.8_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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