Re: What is this????
*- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about "What is this????"
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> I found this file somewhere:
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> c---r----- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts
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> Can anybody tell me what that c is all about???
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> This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to
> do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that.
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Besides the fact that it has insane uid, gid and dates it is a character
device file. Similiar to a serial port or the like.
# ls -l /dev/ttyS0
0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jun 10 1999 /dev/ttyS0
Acccording to the devices.txt file in the kernel Documentation a
character device with major number of 49 is reserved for a 'SDL RISCom
serial card'. Where is this file? You didn't list its path. If it is
/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts then I would just delete it and try
re-installing xlib6g-dev.
Brian Servis
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