Bug#193175: marked as done (missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc)
Your message dated Wed, 14 May 2003 00:40:13 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line Bug#193175: missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 13 May 2003 12:37:58 + >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 13 07:36:12 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60] by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 19FZ0r-0007ey-00; Tue, 13 May 2003 07:36:10 -0500 Received: (qmail 22371 invoked by uid 65534); 13 May 2003 12:35:38 - Received: from p508382E5.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO salutos) (80.131.130.229) by mail.gmx.net (mp011-rz3) with SMTP; 13 May 2003 14:35:38 +0200 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Pedram Azad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 14:34:10 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=4.0 tests=HAS_PACKAGE version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_09 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_09 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Package: xfonts-base Version: 4.1.0-16 I don't get any errors during installation. When trying to run startx finally I get the following (popular) fatal error: could not open default font 'fixed' I figured out that there really is no alias for the font "fixed". In /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc there is no fonts.alias file but a fonts.alias.update-new file whose only contents are: !! fonts.alias -- automatically generated file. DO NOT EDIT. !! To modify, see update-fonts-alias(8). I then figured out that there is no alias file in /etc/X11/fonts/misc which should be the reason for update-fonts-alias failing. Regards. Pedram --- Received: (at 193175-done) by bugs.debian.org; 14 May 2003 05:40:18 + >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 14 00:40:16 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from dhcp065-026-182-085.indy.rr.com (redwald.deadbeast.net) [65.26.182.85] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 19Fozu-0006GF-00; Wed, 14 May 2003 00:40:14 -0500 Received: by redwald.deadbeast.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8317C640F5; Wed, 14 May 2003 00:40:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 00:40:13 -0500 From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#193175: missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0ZpWocbG2H/Vq+uQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-32.6 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_20,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham version=2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_09 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53-bugs.debian.org_2003_05_09 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) --0ZpWocbG2H/Vq+uQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:26:56AM +0200, Pedram Azad wrote: > >Try re-installing the xfonts-base package with the "--force-confmiss" > >option passed to dpkg. >=20 > I did that, it fixed the problem as you said. Was it really a bug in > xfonts-base? Probably not. > Do you have an idea which module was responsible for the deletion of > the conffile? No. It might not have even been a package at all. A simple rm command (as root) is enough to do the trick. > >Also, the subject of your bug report confuses me. "/etc/X11/fonts/misc" > >is a directory, not a file. >=20 > Sorry, I wanted to say "missing alias file in /etc/X11/fonts/misc". >=20 > Thanks for your help. No problem. Closing this report. --=20 G. Branden Robinson| You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and
building python-opengl packages (xvfb-run)
Trying to prepare a python-opgengl NMU, I get the following error when running with sudo or fakeroot. Any hint how to avoid this? Thanks, Matthias xvfb-run python setup.py install \ --prefix /build/packages/nmu/python/python-opengl-1.5.7/debian/python-opengl/usr Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 28, in ? import togl_setup File "togl_setup.py", line 16, in ? tk = Tkinter.Tk() File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1538, in __init__ self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className) _tkinter.TclError: this isn't a Tk applicationcouldn't connect to display ":99" /usr/bin/xvfb-run: line 120: kill: (27657) - No such process make: *** [install] Error 1
Bug#189447: Acknowledgement (xserver-xfree86: moving mouse produces intolerable unreliability)
branden, herbert: hi. regarding this issue: i can make things more tolerable by, after running startx, doing a ps -ax, looking for /usr/bin/X, and issuing a renice -20 pid_of_X. also i don't know if you're aware of this but if i renice 10 pid_of_X the mouse does not respond AT ALL (but the keyboard does). renice 0 pid_of_X and the mouse is okay. 10 and below, it stops working. l. p.s. i apologise for not yet having recompiled the ps2 input kernel module with the debug output.
Re: building python-opengl packages (xvfb-run)
On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:54:35AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Trying to prepare a python-opgengl NMU, I get the following error when > running with sudo or fakeroot. Any hint how to avoid this? > xvfb-run python setup.py install \ > --prefix > /build/packages/nmu/python/python-opengl-1.5.7/debian/python-opengl/usr > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "setup.py", line 28, in ? > import togl_setup > File "togl_setup.py", line 16, in ? > tk = Tkinter.Tk() > File "/usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1538, in __init__ > self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className) > _tkinter.TclError: this isn't a Tk applicationcouldn't connect to display > ":99" > /usr/bin/xvfb-run: line 120: kill: (27657) - No such process > make: *** [install] Error 1 It looks like xvfb-run fails to start the Xvfb background process properly. You can run xvfb-run with '-e errfile' to get the output of Xvfb. Xvfb and xvfb-run come with the 'xvfb' package, by the way, which is version 4.2.1-6 here (up to date unstable), and all seems to work fine. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
Bug#193318: xbase-clients: xf86config outputs to wrong file
Package: xbase-clients Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: important File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config xf86confix writes out to /etc/X11/XF86Config, as opposed to XF84Config-4, which is teh file that is needed to start x -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux vivacia 2.4.20-1-k7-smp #1 SMP Sat Mar 22 15:58:43 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on: ii cpp 3:3.2.3-1 The GNU C preprocessor. ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdps1 4.2.1-6Display PostScript (DPS) client li ii libfreetype6 2.1.4-2FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libncurses5 5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libxaw7 4.2.1-6X Athena widget set library ii xlibmesa3-gl [libgl1] 4.2.1-6Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86] ii xlibmesa3-glu 4.2.1-6Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 4.2.1-6X Window System client libraries -- no debconf information
Processed: Re: Bug#193185: gsfonts-x11: gsfonts does not uninstall cleanly.
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 193185 xutils Bug#193185: gsfonts-x11: gsfonts does not uninstall cleanly. Bug reassigned from package `gsfonts-x11' to `xutils'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
Processed: Bug#193185: xutils: update-fonts-scale should ignore uninstalled fonts
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > retitle 193185 Bug#193185: xutils: update-fonts-scale should ignore > uninstalled fonts Bug#193185: gsfonts-x11: gsfonts does not uninstall cleanly. Changed Bug title. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
Processed: Re: Bug#193185: gsfonts-x11: gsfonts does not uninstall cleanly.
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > tags 193185 + patch Bug#193185: gsfonts-x11: gsfonts does not uninstall cleanly. There were no tags set. Tags added: patch > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
Bug#193374: xserver-xfree86: No UseFBDev option when configuring xserver-xfree86
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: important When doing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, there is no option for the user to set UseFBDev to false (I believe there used to be one, but was it might've been taken out). The real problem relates to this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2002/debian-x-200211/msg00375.html For my machine (and I assume any machine with an nvidia radeon card), UseFBDev will cause you to get a "no screens found" error aftering starting X (assuming you really don't have an FB device interface loaded). Personally, not only do I think there should be an option (so you won't have to fix the XF86Config file every upgrade), but it should default to false for the users who would get the "no screens found" error. Jonathan Hseu
