Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:31:49 -0700 From: "j w" <jwdevel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem updating to 7.2 Message-ID: <fa8771800707152331g4269d314hf59a8104b0421360@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <469AD666.9070403@paradise.net.nz> References: <fa8771800707141941w20b043edkd78c9c00f5e29d7c@mail.gmail.com> <fa8771800707151816s1dac6c97odfde848f8a8ed5b4@mail.gmail.com> <469AD666.9070403@paradise.net.nz>
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I tried reinstalling everything font-related, but no luck. However - I did find out what was wrong afterall. For some reason (no idea why) all the fonts in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc were these 20-byte 'junk' files. I gunzip'ed them and they turned into 0-byte pcf files. hence mkfontdir didn't list them as real fonts. But the ports thought the files where there, so didn't update them. So what I did was movethat whole fonts directory, then do a distclean and re-install of all the font-related packages. That put the correct files in X11/fonts, and I got X running. Now I just need to reinstall xfce,firefox,etc,etc to get back to 'normal' (: Thanks, John On 7/15/07, Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > j w wrote: > > Well, I'm still in the midst of this. > > I de/re-installed all my xorg-related ports, and now I don't have any > > of the old 6.9 stuff at all > > > > However, when trying to start X, I get the dreaded "could not find > > default font 'fixed'" error. > > Try deinstall/reinstall on font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc (at least > - you may want to reinstall all font packages). > > Cheers > > Mark > >
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