Re: Unstable X can't find font "fixed" dies immediately.
On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:31:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:56:17PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Subject says it all really. Just upgraded to latest X in sid.
> > All packages present, including xfs but fonts cant be found
> > so X dies immediately. Any advice welcome!
>
> I'm getting some reports of this, but it's not affecting everyone.
>
> I think perhaps one of the other font package maintainers screwed
> something up.
>
> Please mail this list with the output of:
>
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep -i font
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
[eric@mrmime:~]$ COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | grep -i font
ii console-data 1999.08.29-11.2 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fallback tables for console-tools
ii console-tools 0.2.3-10.3 Linux console and font utilities.
ii console-tools-libs 0.2.3-10.3 Shared libraries for Linux console and font manipulation.
ii defoma 0.4.12 Debian Font Manager -- automatic font configuration framework.
ii gsfonts 6.0-2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
ii gsfonts-x11 0.13 Make Ghostscript fonts available to X11.
ii libfreetype6 2.0.2.20010514-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files.
ii libttf2 1.4pre.20010424-1 FreeType 1, The FREE TrueType Font Engine, shared library files.
ii msttcorefonts 0.9.7 Installer for Microsoft TrueType core fonts
ii t1lib1 1.2-1 Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
ii vflib2 2.25.1-12.2 Vector Font Library for Japanese Character Code.
ii xfonts-100dpi 4.1.0-7 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-100dpi-transcoded 4.1.0-7 100 dpi fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
rc xfonts-base 4.1.0-7 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-base-transcoded 4.1.0-7 standard fonts for X (transcoded from ISO 10646-1)
ii xfonts-scalable-nonfree 4.0.3-2 non-free Type1 fonts from XFree86
ii xfstt 1.2 TrueType Font Server for X11
[eric@mrmime:~]$
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