Re: Today's disaster with xorg update
I fixed this by installing xfonts-base for 7.0 and it fixed it
no idea why they were not included with package
On 4/15/06, L. V. Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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