Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:06:35 +0100 From: Harald Weis <hawei@free.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X.org: Fatal server error Message-ID: <20080211170635.GA4228@pollux> In-Reply-To: <20080211093702.GA2367@pollux> References: <20080207124403.GA2792@pollux> <20080210181332.A23724@eskimo.com> <20080211093702.GA2367@pollux>
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> > > A good reason in my case seems to be: all fonts.dir files are empty. > > > > > > Running ``mkfontdir [-e encodings/] misc/'' creates always an empty > > > fonts.dir file, but with the '-e' option a correct encodings.dir file. > > > > > > Conclusion: mkfontdir appears to be broken, or rather mkfontscale as > > > the former is just a single-line shell script. > > > I would check and see if you have the following packages installed: > > 1. font-misc-misc > > 2. font-cursor-misc > > They are installed alright, like all other packages containing the > pattern ``font'' in their name. > > In the meantime, following an off-list advice, I've used truss(1). > I've got now nice truss.out files for two machines (same release): > mine which is good and the other machine (in fact a desktop as well) > which has the bug. > > The trouble is that I'm unable to interpret the difference. For example: > Every line in the bad truss.out file is prefixed with ``2682: ''. > Perhaps a line number? But of which file ? > Couldn't find anything within the sources of truss or mkfontscale. > > No reply yet from the maintainer for mkfontscale x11@FreeBSD.org. First, I'm replying for convenience to two off-list remarks: I've created 4 truss.out files, 2 on the bad box, 2 on the good one, using the following 2 commands (under root in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts): truss -o truss.out mkfontdir misc/ truss -fae -o truss-fae.out mkfontdir misc/ After renaming I've got: truss.bad, truss.good, truss-fae.bad, truss-fae.good truss-fae.bad is the _only_ file all lines of which are prefixed with ``2682: ''. All lines of all other files don't have such a prefix. I cannot check for the time being whether this corresponds to a pid. The bad box is at the other end of the town. Second, is there nobody (more competent than me) out there who would accept receiving and looking into e.g. truss-fae.bad.bz2 (12kB) and truss-fae.good.bz2 (18kB) ? You know I'm just asking for the very very obvious thing which should take not more than 5 minutes for an experienced person. Thank you in advance. Harald -- FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:56:09 UTC 2007
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