Re: Unstable X can't find font "fixed" dies immediately.

[Dave Beckett <dajobe@dajobe.org>]

>>>ISHIKAWA Mutsumi said:
>  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base_3.0.0-12_all.deb contains
> /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base.alias
> 
>  And, syntax of this is invalid.
> 
> $cat /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base.alias
> # This file is outdated and can be removed
> 
>  This file uses `#' as "commented out", but `#' does not mean
> "commented out" in .alias file. .alias files should use `!'
> "commented out".
> 
>  But...
>   I do not know whether it is related to this problem.


I can confirm deleting those lines from font.alias fixes the problem.

It seems that the
  /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base.alias
  /etc/X11/fonts/75dpi/xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base.alias
  /etc/X11/fonts/100dpi/xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-100dpi.alias

font config files were all removed in the 3.0.0-12 upgrade leaving
the nearly empty 1-line file and a bunch of much larger
*.alias.dpkg.old files around.  I guess this also means that none of
the fonts in those packages are visible anymore.

To fix, I hand edited the broken resulting font.alias files:
  vi `grep -l '^#' /usr/lib/X11/fonts/*/fonts.alias`
to remove the #-lines - which worked.  I also tried replacing the
alias files above with the previous versions which also works.

Packages with bad/near-empty /etc/X11/fonts/*/.alias files:
  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-base   3.0.0-12
  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-75dpi  3.0.0-12
  xfonts-biznet-iso-8859-2-100dpi 3.0.0-12

and removing them should also fix this.

Thanks all; back to the GUI :)

Dave