Re: Today's disaster with xorg update
On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 15:13:28 -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> It is not clear to me if you set your font paths as per Chris's original
> suggestion, or if you also include the additional path which Anthony
> mentions. Please post the "Files" section of your xorg.conf with all the
> FontPath commands included.
>
> > 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
>
> [...]
>
> > error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> I don't think this is critical, but just to be sure you could create a
> symlink to the new location of the SecurityPolicy file:
>
> ln -s /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> [...]
>
> > 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
>
> I think this is harmless.
>
> > 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:~$
>
> The problem is that X cannot find the default font which it needs.
> Hopefully you xorg.conf will tell us why this happens. Also check which
> font packages you have currently installed:
>
> dpkg -l xfonts* | grep ^ii
lvgdell600m:/home/lvgandhi# dpkg -l xfonts* | grep ^ii
ii xfonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-encodings 1.0.0-2 Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii xfonts-scalable 1.0.0-4 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-terminus 4.16-3 Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii xfonts-utils 1.0.0-3 X Window System font utility programs
lvgdell600m:/home/lvgandhi#
My files section as follows
Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
I tried as such and also commenting out lines for misc and cyrillic.
Further I got
lvgdell600m:/home/lvgandhi# ln -s /etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
/usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy' to
`/etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy': No such file or directory
following log
lvgdell600m:/home/lvgandhi# bin/xerrorcheck
(WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled
lvgdell600m:/home/lvgandhi# 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'
I would be thankful if some guidance is coming
--
L.V.Gandhi
http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
linux user No.205042
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