On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 10:38:55AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > The error they experience is this: > > Starting Xprint servers > /etc/init.d/xprint: ## WARNING: Can't find "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir", TrueType font support disabled. > > and when they check, they find that > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/encodings/encodings.dir is indeed missing. Which > as I said prevents Xprt from starting. > > But this encodings.dir comes from xfonts-base and has nothing to do > (directly) with xprint-xprintorg. It got deleted somehow, no one seems to > be able to say why, and I can't reproduce the situation. The short term fix > for them is, of course, to reinstall xfonts-base. > > But since the problem has arisen on multiple occasions for different users, > it'd be worth figuring out what's going on. Are you able to say if other > XFree86 users have experienced the same missing encodings.dir? I hear about this once in a great while. I suggest that affected people set the immutable flag on the file[1] after reinstalling xfonts-base. That way maybe the mysterious something that is trying to destroy it will throw an error when its assassination attempt fails. Of course, the flag will have to be removed *during* upgrades of xfonts-base. [1] man chattr -- G. Branden Robinson | Those who fail to remember the laws Debian GNU/Linux | of science are condemned to branden@debian.org | rediscover some of the worst ones. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Harold Gordon
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