Re: X Crash after installing msttcorefonts, cabextract, x-ttcidfont-conf

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <pfei@gmx.net>]

Thanks for your answer.

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, William Crowshaw wrote:

> I installed these fonts by hand (because ttcidfont IMO
> is a piece of crap) with woody's default X server
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
... How ?

Thanks in anticipation.

Regards,
Wolfgang


> (4.1.0.1?) and it worked.  I think you may need to
> change the case of your font filenames to lower.
>
> --- Wolfgang Pfeiffer <pfei@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is what I have:
> >
> > Titanium IV
> >
> > ii  x-window-syste 4.2.1-6        X Window System
> > core components
> > ii  x-window-syste 4.2.1-6        X Window System
> > ii  drm-trunk-modu 2003.05.04-1   Source for the DRI
> > CVS trunk DRM modules
> > ii  xserver-xfree8 2002.12.05-4   The DRI CVS trunk
> > XFree86 X server
> > ii  xlibmesa3-dri- 2002.12.05-4   DRI CVS trunk
> > version of Mesa 3D graphics li
> > ii  msttcorefonts  1.1.2          Installer for
> > Microsoft TrueType core fonts
> > ii  cabextract     0.5-1          a program to
> > extract Microsoft Cabinet files
> > ii  x-ttcidfont-co 13             Configure TrueType
> > and CID fonts for X.
> >
> >
> > After installing msttcorefonts, cabextract and
> > x-ttcidfont-conf yesterday,
> > the X server is crashing after running xfontsel.
> >
> > And it seems it doesn't matter whether I choose
> > "xtt" or "freetype" when
> > configuring x-ttcidfont-conf: the X server is either
> > crashing in both
> > cases. Or, if the server does not crash, xfontsel
> > crashes, rendering it
> > unusable.
> >
> > Lines similar to the following ones in
> > /var/log/XFree86.0.log seem to be
> > typical when trying to run xfontsel and choosing
> > microsoft fonts:
> >
> > FreeType: couldn't open face
> > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ai
> > =0.4:Trebuchet_MS_Bold.ttf: 1
> > FreeType: couldn't open face
> > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ai
> > =0.4:Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf: 1
> > FreeType: couldn't open face
> > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ai
> > =0.4:Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf: 1
> > FreeType: couldn't open face
> > /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType/ai
> > =0.4:Arial_Bold_Italic.ttf: 1
> >
> >
> > My last /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> >

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