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and subject line Bug#397126: xserver-xorg upgrade gives "could not open default
font 'fixed'"
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Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.1.0-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
after the recent xserver-xorg testing upgrade (the system was on testing
before) the xserver rendered unusable. it issues a:
(**) RADEON(0): Initializing DPMS
(**) RADEON(0): Initializing Cursor
(**) RADEON(0): Initializing color map
(**) RADEON(0): Initializing DGA
(**) RADEON(0): Initializing Xv
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONScreenInit finished
(EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed
(/usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory)
(EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering
xkb_keycodes { include "xfree86+aliases(qwertz)" };
xkb_types { include "complete" };
xkb_compatibility { include "complete" };
xkb_symbols { include "pc(pc105)+de(CH)" };
xkb_geometry { include "pc(pc105)" };
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: No Symbols named "CH" in the include file "de"
> Exiting
> Abandoning symbols file "default"
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Could not init font path element /usr/local/share/fonts, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/truetype, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/type1, removing from list!
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONLeaveVT
(**) RADEON(0): EngineRestore (32/32)
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestore
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode()
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMode(0x81fd3e0)
(**) RADEON(0): RADEONRestoreMemMapRegisters() :
(**) RADEON(0): MC_FB_LOCATION : 0x1fff0000
(**) RADEON(0): MC_AGP_LOCATION : 0x27ff2000
(**) RADEON(0): Map Changed ! Applying ...
(**) RADEON(0): Map applied, resetting engine ...
(**) RADEON(0): Updating display base addresses...
(**) RADEON(0): Memory map updated.
(**) RADEON(0): Programming CRTC1, offset: 0x00000000
(**) RADEON(0): Wrote: 0x00000002 0x00040018 0x00000000 (0x0000a700)
(**) RADEON(0): Wrote: rd=2, fd=24, pd=4
(**) RADEON(0): Ok, leaving now...
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages#head-a570197d15005a2c71cbb5e565114e2c04a573a3
suggests to run "mkfontdir" on the mentioned directoriies. they seem to
contain fonts. but it does not work. e.g. # ls -l /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 784 2006-11-05 11:40 dustin
-rw------- 1 root root 2 2006-11-05 11:40 fonts.dir
-rw------- 1 root root 2 2006-11-05 11:48 fonts.scale
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 488 2006-11-05 11:40 freefont
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 272 2006-11-05 11:40 latex-xft-fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2128 2006-11-05 11:40 msttcorefonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2006-11-05 11:40 openoffice
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 360 2006-11-05 11:40 ttf-bitstream-vera
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 976 2006-11-05 11:40 ttf-dejavu
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii debconf 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii x11-common 1:7.1.0-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds-3 miscellaneous X clients
ii xkb-data 0.9-4 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.1.1-10 X.Org X server -- core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.1.0-5 the X.Org X server -- input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-evde 1:1.1.2-3 X.Org X server -- evdev input driv
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.1.0-4 X.Org X server -- keyboard input d
ii xserver-xorg-input-mous 1:1.1.1-3 X.Org X server -- mouse input driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.1.0-5 the X.Org X server -- output drive
ii xserver-xorg-video-apm 1:1.1.1-3 X.Org X server -- APM display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-ark 1:0.6.0-3 X.Org X server -- ark display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.6.3-2 X.Org X server -- ATI display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-chip 1:1.1.1-4 X.Org X server -- Chips display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-cirr 1:1.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- Cirrus display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-cyri 1:1.1.0-4 X.Org X server -- Cyrix display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-dumm 1:0.2.0-3 X.Org X server -- dummy display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-fbde 1:0.3.0-3 X.Org X server -- fbdev display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-glin 1:1.1.1-3 X.Org X server -- Glint display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-i128 1:1.2.0-3 X.Org X server -- i128 display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-i740 1:1.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- i740 display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-i810 2:1.7.2-1 X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx
ii xserver-xorg-video-imst 1:1.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- IMSTT display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-mga 1:1.4.2.dfsg.1-1 X.Org X server -- MGA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-neom 1:1.1.1-4 X.Org X server -- Neomagic display
ii xserver-xorg-video-newp 1:0.2.0-3 X.Org X server -- Newport display
ii xserver-xorg-video-nsc 1:2.8.1-3 X.Org X server -- NSC display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-nv [ 1:1.2.0-3 X.Org X server -- NV display drive
ii xserver-xorg-video-rend 1:4.1.0.dfsg.1-4 X.Org X server -- Rendition displa
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3 [ 1:0.4.1-4 X.Org X server -- legacy S3 displa
ii xserver-xorg-video-s3vi 1:1.9.1-3 X.Org X server -- S3 ViRGE display
ii xserver-xorg-video-sava 1:2.1.2-1 X.Org X server -- Savage display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-sili 1:1.4.1-4 X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion di
ii xserver-xorg-video-sis 1:0.9.1-4 X.Org X server -- SiS display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-sisu 1:0.8.1-3 X.Org X server -- SiS USB display
ii xserver-xorg-video-tdfx 1:1.2.1-5 X.Org X server -- tdfx display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-tga 1:1.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- TGA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-trid 1:1.2.1-3 X.Org X server -- Trident display
ii xserver-xorg-video-tsen 1:1.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- Tseng display dr
ii xserver-xorg-video-v4l 0.1.1-3 X.Org X server -- Video 4 Linux di
ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa 1:1.2.1-3 X.Org X server -- VESA display dri
ii xserver-xorg-video-vga 1:4.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- VGA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-via 1:0.2.1-5 X.Org X server -- VIA display driv
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmwa 1:10.13.0-3 X.Org X server -- VMware display d
ii xserver-xorg-video-vood 1:1.1.0-4 X.Org X server -- Voodoo display d
Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
ii discover 2.1.1-2 hardware identification system
pn laptop-detect <none> (no description available)
ii mdetect 0.5.2.1 mouse device autodetection tool
pn xresprobe <none> (no description available)
-- debconf-show failed
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On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:14:55PM +0100, soloturn wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg
> Version: 1:7.1.0-5
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> after the recent xserver-xorg testing upgrade (the system was on testing
> before) the xserver rendered unusable. it issues a:
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
This is an issue solely with upgrades from testing and it does not appear
to affect upgrades from stable, so I'm closing this bug. The fix is to
either run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' or to manually add the various
FontPath elements for the fonts, which are now located in
/usr/share/fonts/X11.
- David Nusinow
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