On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:53:31AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: > >Did you remove a lot of information from this report? > > > I plead guilty on this count. I removed it in the belief that reams of > configuration information about stuff that was working fine wasn't needed.
Trust me: 19 times out of 20, it helps.
> >Also, when the X server failed, you should have seen a message that
> >looked like this:
> >
> >#ifdef DEBIAN
> > FatalError("could not open default cursor font '%s';\n"
> >"the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)\n"
> >"may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not\n"
> >"configured correctly.\n"
> >"\n"
> >"People inexperienced with the X Window System should have either the\n"
> >"\"x-window-system\" or \"x-window-system-core\" packages installed.\n"
> >"# apt-get install x-window-system-core\n"
> >"# apt-get install x-window-system\n"
> >"\n"
> >"Useful commands to run include:\n"
> >"$ dpkg --status xserver-common\n"
> >"$ dpkg --status xfonts-base\n"
> >"$ zmore /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz", defaultCursorFont);
> >
> >(Please mentally translate the above C string into proper English.)
> >
> >Did you not see the above?
> >
> >
> Indeed I did! Now, please consider that installing artwiz-cursor solved
> my problem, so it's slightly disconcerting to be referred to an error
> message that tells me in very general terms about the x-windows system,
> which you will be the first to admit is an awe-inspiring pile of code,
> right up there with St. Paul's Cathedral.
>
> If there is not a missing dependency, I retract the report and will
> amuse myself in figuring out what went wrong. But couldn't we say
> something more helpful to someone who runs into this problem? Error
> messages that say "Something went wrong with this program; why don't you
> figure it all out and then fix it?" don't meet that immediate need for a
> well-defined way forward.
It *did* say:
> >"People inexperienced with the X Window System should have either the\n"
> >"\"x-window-system\" or \"x-window-system-core\" packages installed.\n"
> >"# apt-get install x-window-system-core\n"
> >"# apt-get install x-window-system\n"
Try removing artwiz-cursor, executing either of the above commands,
and starting the X server again.
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