Bug#335063: xutils: mkfontdir installs faulty fonts.dir for ttf-bitstream-vera pkg.

[Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>]

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thanks

Hello Andrew.

 On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:21:15 -0700
 you wrote:

 ATY> After installing the ttf-bitstream-vera font package,
 ATY> I find that X gives a "could not init fontpath element"
 ATY> error message for the TrueType fonts.  This appears to be
 ATY> caused by faulty fonts.dir and fonts.scale files created in
 ATY> /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType directory; they have
 ATY> blanks instead of underscores in the XLFDs for the Bitstream fonts.
 ATY> The blanks make X barf when it tries to set up these fonts.

Your assumption is completely wrong. Having blanks in XLFDs is perfectly
correct. 

Can you please provide:
    1. fonts.dir and fonts.scale files from
        /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/TrueType
    2. Your config (/etc/X11/XF86Config-4)
    3. X server log (/var/log/XFree86.0.log)