Bug#384273: xfonts-base: xorg wont start could not open default cursor font 'cursor
Subject: xfonts-base: xorg wont start could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
Package: xfonts-base
Version: 1:1.0.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
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I did a fresh install of etch using business card disk, installed
desktop packages.
I then upgraded to sid
from etch. I had a working X initially through the point of the
dist-upgrade.
In fact X continued to work until I did a reboot (I did a reboot because
of a reinstall of linux-image-2.6.16, and system warning reboot
neccessary because of reinstall of same kernel).
Now after reboot X wont start with error message in X.log
Fatal server error:
could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
Now I did a apt-get remove --purge xfont-base
and I get an error message
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /etc/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
and same sort of message with
apt-get install xfont-base.
These directories are present on other sid machines I have.
They have files such as
1)
ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
fonts.alias fonts.cache-1
2)
ls /etc/X11/fonts/misc
xfonts-base.alias
This absence seems to be the source of my problems. What can I do to solve them?
Is this a bug in xfonts-base?
Thanks,
Mitchell Laks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii x11-common 1:7.0.23 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.0-6 X Window System font utility progr
xfonts-base recommends no packages.
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