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Bug#377369: marked as done (Xvnc4 still cannot find the "fixed" font.)



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Package: vnc4server
Version: 4.1.1+X4.3.0-10
Severity: grave



Xvnc4 cannot find the "fixed" font. For example with this command:

$ Xvnc4 -fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc :1 [Enter]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'

Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.1 - built May 15 2006 20:53:26
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc


Sat Jul  8 16:12:25 2006
 vncext:      VNC extension running!
 vncext:      Listening for VNC connections on port 5901
 vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Please note that that /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ contains the "fixed" font,
as defined by /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!! fonts.alias -- automatically generated file.  DO NOT EDIT.
!! To modify, see update-fonts-alias(8).
!! /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
! $Xorg: fonts.alias,v 1.3 2000/08/21 16:42:31 coskrey Exp $
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
variable     -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
...

!! /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/misc/xfonts-base.alias
! $Xorg: fonts.alias,v 1.3 2000/08/21 16:42:31 coskrey Exp $
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
variable     -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
...
------------------------------------------------------------------------------


$ dpkg -l xfonts-base [Enter]
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  xfonts-base    1.0.0-3        standard fonts for X
------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Thank you for your attention.
daniele giacomini



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Hi,
/usr/share/X11/fonts/ is the canonical location these days.  I suspect
Xvnc may have issues related to overriding the default fontpath, which
is why it broke when the font path changed.

If you do reopen this bug (which I'm closing as user error), reassign it
to vnc4server.  If xfonts-base was _actually_ broken, as you claim, then
no X server would start for anyone at all.

Cheers,
Daniel

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