Re: Debian/Testing: x-window-system-core broken/missing fonts.alias?

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:20:17 -0400, rs wrote:
> 
> Hmm... I'm not sure. I do not have X11 directory in /usr/share/fonts/ at all.
> 
> # ll /usr/share/fonts/
> total 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   37 2006-05-17 20:29 fonts.cache-1
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2006-05-17 17:19 truetype
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2006-05-17 16:01 type1
> 
> I do have /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ though:
> 
> # ll /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
> total 88
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28672 2006-05-18 15:21 100dpi
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 28672 2006-05-18 15:21 75dpi
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 2006-05-18 16:07 encodings
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   123 2006-05-17 20:29 fonts.cache-1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2006-05-18 16:07 misc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-05-17 19:35 Speedo
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-05-18 15:21 Type1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2006-05-18 15:21 util
> 
> # ll /usr/lib/X11*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2006-05-17 20:28 /usr/lib/X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11
> 
> 
> # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> ## xorg.conf (Xorg X Window System server configuration file)
> ## ...
> Section "Files"
> 	FontPath	"unix/:7100"			# local font server
> 	# if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> 	FontPath	"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
> EndSection
> ...
> 
> One strange thing I can spot right away is that I do not have the "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" directory (see above).

OK, you seem to have an older version of X installed; the font paths are
correct in that case. Maybe it will help to run as root

update-fonts-alias misc Type1 100dpi 75dpi

-- 
Regards,
          Florian