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default cursor font 'cursor
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Subject: xfonts-base: xorg wont start could not open default cursor font
'cursor'
Package: xfonts-base
Version: 1:1.0.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
*** Please type your report below this line ***
I did a fresh install of etch using business card disk, installed
desktop packages.
I then upgraded to sid
from etch. I had a working X initially through the point of the
dist-upgrade.
In fact X continued to work until I did a reboot (I did a reboot because
of a reinstall of linux-image-2.6.16, and system warning reboot
neccessary because of reinstall of same kernel).
Now after reboot X wont start with error message in X.log
Fatal server error:
could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
Now I did a apt-get remove --purge xfont-base
and I get an error message
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /etc/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
and same sort of message with
apt-get install xfont-base.
These directories are present on other sid machines I have.
They have files such as
1)
ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
fonts.alias fonts.cache-1
2)
ls /etc/X11/fonts/misc
xfonts-base.alias
This absence seems to be the source of my problems. What can I do to solve them?
Is this a bug in xfonts-base?
Thanks,
Mitchell Laks
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii x11-common 1:7.0.23 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.0-6 X Window System font utility progr
xfonts-base recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 08:30:13PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 01:59:47PM -0400, mlaks wrote:
> > Subject: xfonts-base: xorg wont start could not open default cursor font
> > 'cursor'
> > Package: xfonts-base
> > Version: 1:1.0.0-3
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > *** Please type your report below this line ***
> > I did a fresh install of etch using business card disk, installed
> > desktop packages.
> > I then upgraded to sid
> > from etch. I had a working X initially through the point of the
> > dist-upgrade.
> >
> > In fact X continued to work until I did a reboot (I did a reboot because
> > of a reinstall of linux-image-2.6.16, and system warning reboot
> > neccessary because of reinstall of same kernel).
> >
> > Now after reboot X wont start with error message in X.log
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
> >
> > Now I did a apt-get remove --purge xfont-base
> > and I get an error message
> >
> > warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
> > warning: /etc/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
> > warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
> >
> > and same sort of message with
> > apt-get install xfont-base.
> >
> > These directories are present on other sid machines I have.
> > They have files such as
> > 1)
> > ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> > fonts.alias fonts.cache-1
> >
> > 2)
> > ls /etc/X11/fonts/misc
> > xfonts-base.alias
> >
> > This absence seems to be the source of my problems. What can I do to solve
> > them?
> >
> > Is this a bug in xfonts-base?
>
> I've just uploaded a new set of xfonts* packages with fixes from Eugene
> Konev to unstable. They're in incoming.debian.org right now, or you can
> wait for them to be pushed to your mirror. Could you install those and let
> us know if this bug can be closed? Thanks!
It's been two weeks with no reply. I'm going to assume that the new upload
fixed your problem. Please re-open if not so we can figure out how to help.
Thanks.
- David Nusinow
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