On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:13:33PM -0800, Joseph Olatt wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:44:03PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: > > > > This is the message (without the stars) I get on a laptop after > > a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 (previously 6.0). > > > > Searching the archives, I found two reasons which do not apply for me: > > > > 1. xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.2 is properly installed > > 2. the same is true for font-alias-1.0.1 > > > > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for any help, Harald -- FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:56:09 UTC 2007 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
