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On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 04:29:24PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.3.0-5
> Severity: normal
> Tags: sid
>
> After upgrading XFree86 from 4.2 to 4.3.0-5, I was unable to start X11; it exited
> with the following error: "could not open default font 'cursor'". A quick google
> and I found someone who had solved this problem by reinstalling artwiz-cursor. I
> didn't have that installed already, but installing it fixed my problem (and I got
> a cool cursor). I imagine I could have used a different cursor package. Is this
> a missing dependency?
>
> -- Package-specific info:
> Contents of /var/lib/xfree86/X.roster:
> xserver-xfree86
>
> X server symlink status:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Feb 18 02:44 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1743308 Mar 4 21:35 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
> /etc/X11/X target unchanged from checksum in /var/lib/xfree86/X.md5sum.
>
> Contents of /var/lib/xfree86/XF86Config-4.roster:
> xserver-xfree86
Did you remove a lot of information from this report?
Also, when the X server failed, you should have seen a message that
looked like this:
#ifdef DEBIAN
FatalError("could not open default cursor font '%s';\n"
"the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)\n"
"may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not\n"
"configured correctly.\n"
"\n"
"People inexperienced with the X Window System should have either the\n"
"\"x-window-system\" or \"x-window-system-core\" packages installed.\n"
"# apt-get install x-window-system-core\n"
"# apt-get install x-window-system\n"
"\n"
"Useful commands to run include:\n"
"$ dpkg --status xserver-common\n"
"$ dpkg --status xfonts-base\n"
"$ zmore /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz", defaultCursorFont);
(Please mentally translate the above C string into proper English.)
Did you not see the above?
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