Bug#257799: Xprt can't find 'fixed' font, but it's there
Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:03:29PM -0400, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > Package: xprt
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-5
> > Severity: important
> >
> > On startup, xprt immediately exits because it can't find the "fixed"
> > font. Nevertheless, the font is there:
> >
> > $ xlsfonts |grep '^fixed'
> > fixed
> >
> > And "xterm -fn fixed" works fine w/o error.
> >
> > Here's the xprt log:
> >
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64:
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64: Fatal server error:
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64: could not open default font 'fixed';
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64: the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64: may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64: configured correctly.
> > Jul 5 22:56:24 tytlal Xprt_64:
>
> Have you tried xprt-xprintorg instead?
xprt-xprintorg may fail, too. The problem is that XFree86 has code which
was never ported to the old X.org tree (e.g. anything based on <=
X11R6.6; xprt-xprintorg is currently a X11R6.6 derivate. The next major
version will be based on X11R6.7.1 and includes the same fallback code
as Xfree86).
BTW: Xprint release 009.001 has a "diag" option to find the
fonts.dir/fonts.alias entry which causes this mess... once the Debian
package has been updated to release 009.001 try % /etc/init.d/xprint
diag # and check the output... :)
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Bye,
Roland
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