On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:25:11AM +1000, Shanley, Kieran wrote:
> Apologies if it is not the done thing to email the maintainer directly but I
> wanted to ask you if you had a work around for this issue (xfonts-scalable:
> Can't scan directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo). It looks to me like
> xfonts scalable isn't completely installed on my system due to this error and I
> am getting some strange behaviour from KDE - in my KDE enviroment all the text
> is unreadable - the font it is using full of mysterious symbols. Luckily I have
> GNOME installed and for what ever reason it doesn't seem to be using scalable
> fonts so it is still working. I am running debian unstable on my system.
> Any ideas on how to get around this problem ? I appreciate you must get a lot
> of email so no worries if you haven't got the bandwidth to deal with my
> problem.
One workaround might be to remove the Speedo directory from the list of
font directories to process in the package's postinst, and then
reconfigure the package.
E.g.,
$ editor /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-scalable.postinst
[ Edit the line:
FONTDIRS="Speedo Type1"
to read:
FOTNDIRS="Type1"
This line is near the very end of the file.]
$ dpkg --configure xfonts-scalable
I don't know why xftcache SEGVs only for some people and not others.
Please let me know if this works.
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