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Bug#13710: marked as done (xnest: cannot start if not using a font server and one of the hard-coded font path elements is unusable)



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Package: xnest
Version: 3.3-6

Xnest seems to want all the font dirs installed before it will run.
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> v
total 14
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         5120 Oct  7 16:27 100dpi/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         5120 Oct  6 21:22 75dpi/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Oct  7 14:52 Speedo/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Oct  7 14:52 Type1/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Oct  6 21:23 misc/
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> Xnest :1
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_MX connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> mv 100dpi/ 100dp  
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> Xnest :1
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_Mfailed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> mv 100dp/ 100dpi 
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> Xnest :1
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_MX connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
<ani>[wakko] /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts> 

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux ani 2.0.31 #2 Thu Sep 18 01:07:49 EDT 1997 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages xnest depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.5c-0.1
xlib6g	Version: 3.3-6

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Hi,
The code to deal with this is all in the DIX, which allows
initialisation of single font paths to fail on startup.  So I claim this
bug is now fixed.

Cheers,
Daniel

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