Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:01:43 +0200 From: Tilman Linneweh <arved@FreeBSD.org> To: dlt@mebtel.net Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X11 6.9 -> 7.2 Fixed font missing Message-ID: <4BF813E3-4EDB-4E41-8526-84CA71B57A48@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20070609184313.GA1917@lorne.arm.org> References: <20070609184313.GA1917@lorne.arm.org>
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On Jun 9, 2007, at 20:43 , Derek Tattersall wrote: > I did the upgrade on an AMD64 6.2 STABLE box from 6.9 to 7.2. > Following > Kris's directions, the upgrade went smoothly. However, after I used > Xorg -configure to create a new xorg.conf, when I attempted to test > it, > it reported that the fixed font could not be found. After reading the > X11 list, it seems that others have had this problem. I reran fc- > cache, > and it does not cache any of the fixed fonts. I had to run by hand > mkfontdirs in each of the directories in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts. > > In comparing this installation to one on a current box that was > recently > installed from the May snapshot, Most everything looks the same, > the few > differences in package lists are due to apsfilter and friends being > installed on the current box. The xorg.0.log shows no EE entries, > just > the fixed font missing message. What am I missing here, and what > is the > recovery path? I had this on one STABLE machine, were i upgraded via packages. I followed the Xorg FAQ http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages and decided to reinstall font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc from ports and it worked.
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