retitle 253806 xfree86: [FAQ] add more troubleshooting advice for the 'could not open default font' question reassign 253806 xfree86 tag 235806 = thanks On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:28:41AM +0200, Floris Kraak wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > >1) What does "dpkg -s xfonts-base" say? > > Not sure since we fixed this particular problem since then (see 2) > However, it was a) installed, b) not broken, and c) the same version as > what was current in the repository at the time. I know this for sure. Okay. > >2) If you reinstall xfonts-base, does the problem go away? > > Yes. Though a normal reinstall wasn't enough, but purging it and > re-installing it then did work. That suggests to me that a conffile was involved. /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias, for example, is a conffile. If something stomped on that file such that the "fixed" line went missing... $ grep '\<fixed\>' /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias | head -n 1 fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 ...then that would definitely cause your problem. > >3) Are any other packages shipping files in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc? > > dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > > root@hq:~# dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u > xfonts-base > xfonts-base, xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc > > Not sure what those bolkhov fonts are doing there. We sure as hell don't > need them .. Might want to make sure xfonts-bolkhov*'s maintainer scripts aren't doing anything evil... > >4) Is anything other than an official Debian package putting stuff in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc? > > No. > > This one took us some time to figure out and debug, especially since xvfb > was not really helpful in telling us what was going wrong and why. Since > reinstalling xfonts-base did help (but it needed a purge!) maybe it's a > good idea to put the purge-and-reinstall option in the documentation or > something.. I apologize for the difficulty you experienced. Looks like I need to expand the answer to the following FAQ entry: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#fixedfont I am therefore re-purposing this bug to that end, since your problem is resolved. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux | thinking, they'll love you; but if branden@debian.org | you really make them think, they'll http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | hate you. -- Don Marquis
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