On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 10:35:29PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > I had a problem today thanks to the latest round of XFree86 upgrading in > Sid. I logged out, and gdm failed to come up. I rebooted and it again > failed. /var/log/syslog simply said that it had failed, but not why. > /var/log/XFree86.0.log told me that the mouse could not be initialized, > and hinted that my mouse configuration had changed. This was confirmed > by looking at /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 -- my customizations were all gone. > [snip] > > The remaining issue is that of font management; dexconf insists on > inserting a line for an xfs listening on port 7100, which is wrong > because I don't have an xfs installed. It also insists on throwing away > the entry for my TrueType fonts directory. dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xfree86 didn't ask me about those things, and dpkg-reconfigure > xfree86-common didn't ask me about anything. Is there some other package > I can reconfigure that will ask me the right questions so I can prevent > my X configuration from getting subtly screwed up every time a new set > of XFree86 packages is installed?
The way to do it is when reconfiguring the xserver-xfree86 you have to
answer "no" to "Write default Files section to configuration file?"
question.
Then edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and add Files section manually
_outside_ of ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION/### END DEBCONF SECTION block.
I hope that works for you.
>
> The TrueType fonts, by the way, didn't come from a Debian package, which
> I suppose could be why debconf doesn't know about them; I just copied
> them over from my Windows machine and manually configured them. If
> there's some trivial package I can install that will just register the
> presence of the font directory, I'll do that.
>
Just put them in /usr/local and add that FontPath to your custom files
section. Don't forget the required stuff to be done for TT fonts.
>
[snip]
> Thanks,
>
> Craig
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