Bug#214449: xfonts-base: Problem is: fonts.dir and other files /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi etc.
Package: xfonts-base
Version: 1:1.0.0-3
Followup-For: Bug #214449
Hi,
I noticed the same problem and looked at what /var/log/Xorg.0.log contains:
guess what? Although the font files by e.g. xfonts-75dpi are removed
from /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi and placed into
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi, the fonts.dir and other files stay behind
in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi and are included because of compiled in
defaults of the X-Server, which then tries to load fonts listed in
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir from there (but fails for obvious
reasons). Thus some procedure is required to remove empty directories
in /usr/lib/X11 or at least fill fonts.dir et al. with sensible values
for the few fonts left behind there.
Unfortunately I'd guess many people installed 3rd party fonts in those
places so deleting the directories right away is perhaps not the
smartest move.
I hope this info helps some people. The obvious recipe: move your
manually installed fonts to /usr/local and remove the dirs in /usr/lib
or call mkfonts at least. (I did "rm -rf /usr/lib/X11/fonts/*" but won't
exactly recommend anything involving "rm -rf" to anyone;-))
Ciao,
Thomas Jahns
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-mercury
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii x11-common 1:7.0.17 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.0-4 X Window System font utility progr
xfonts-base recommends no packages.
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