Re: Today's disaster with xorg update
On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 16:02:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up.
> > > > The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font
> > > > "fixed".
> > > >
> > > > The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else seeing this?
> > > >
> > > Commenting out all FontPaths but these in /etc/xorg.conf
> > >
> > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> > >
> > > allowed me to login again with gdm (no startx just yet).
> > >
> > > I also changed the module path:
> > > ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Didn't help here (but I don't have gdm). Unless I include the path to
> > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc it complains about no default file, but if I
> > do include it I get "FPE: "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2,
> > should be 1; fixing"
> >
> > I have no idea what this means and Google is not enlightening.
>
> I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with
> "startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I
> would guess that you have an additional problem. Do you find any error
> messages or warnings in the log files after you try to start X?
>
> Try to run
>
> egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> Maybe that will turn up something useful to diagnose the problem.
Today once again I did dist-upgrade. I made mdsum filr for xorg.conf
and did dpkg-reconfigure. Still x didn't start. Output as below after
keeping only font lines mentioned by you.
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686
Current Operating System: Linux lvgdell600m 2.6.15.20060311 #1 Sat Mar
11 15:57:59 PST 2006 i686
Build Date: 16 March 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 15 15:02:34 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
Synaptics DeviceOn called
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Excerpts from log
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ cat bin/xerrorcheck
egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.loglvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ xerrorcheck
(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Synaptics DeviceOn called
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event3
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
lvgandhi@lvgdell600m:~$
I am at loss to understand what to do to get back my kde?
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L.V.Gandhi
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linux user No.205042
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