Bug#333151: definitely FontPath issue in package xserver-xorg postinst

[Frits Daalmans <frits@few.vu.nl>]

Hi,

upgrade from "etch-1-month-ago" to 20061120 broke my X server,
solution found, still needs a good patch.

I think it should be reassigned to xserver-xorg?

Symptoms:
xserver-xorg 7.1.0 refuses to start with the following errors
(in /var/log/Xorg.0.log)

Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing fromlist!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

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The error was caused because I upgraded from an old installation where my
/etc/X11/xorg.conf contained font directories from
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts.

Proposed solution:
have a postinst check for FontPath elements with
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xyz
and change the base directory to /usr/share/fonts/X11/
(or maybe /usr/share/fonts/X11/X11R7/ would be even better, I'm not sure)

Presumably this error will never show up with a clean install, just with
an upgrade from xserver-xorg 7.0 versions?

bye,
Frits