Paul McDermott wrote:
>
> Hi all, after upgrade to the latest version of slink using dftp. Wdm is
> broken it gives me the following error.
> wdmLogin warning: could not load font set
> -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed.
> wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font!
> wdmLogin warning: could not load font set
> -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed.
> wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font!
> wdmLogin warning: WINGs: could not load widget images file: could not open
> file
> wdmLogin warning: could not load font set
> -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed.
> wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font!
> wdmLogin warning: could not load font set
> -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed.
> wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font!
> wdmLogin warning: could not load font set
> -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed.
> wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font!
> xdm error (pid 18519): Greet: guarenteed_read error, UNMANAGE DISPLAY
> xdm error (pid 18519): Greet: pipe read error with /usr/X11R6/bin/wdmLogin
> wdm: wdm pipe read error with program /usr/X11R6/bin/wdmLogin, wdm
> terminating
>
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667
>
> I have this for my install fonts:
>
> ic xfnt100 3.3.2.3a-1 100 dpi fonts for X servers
> ic xfnt75 3.3.2.3a-1 75 dpi fonts for X servers
> ii xfntbase 3.3.2.3a-1 standard fonts for X servers
> ii xfntbig 3.3.2.3a-1 Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts for
> X se
> pn xfntbig5p-cmex2 <none> (no description available)
> ii xfntcyr 3.3.2.3a-1 Cyrillic fonts for X servers
> ii xfntil2 2.1.0 ISO 8859-2 fonts for X servers.
> un xfntil2-nonfree <none> (no description available)
> un xfntmizi-ko <none> (no description available)
> ii xfntpex 3.3.2.3a-1 minimal fonts for PEX support in X
> servers
> ii xfntscl 3.3.2.3a-1 scalable fonts for X servers
>
> I know that x11 is broken under slink but i don't know what else to do.
> Can and will anyone help me?
> Paul
> ps thankyou in sdvance.
With my experience, I don't believe the latest X11 stuff in slink is
broken anymore, but its been broken down into a bunch of smaller debs.
I scrubbed my system free of all the old X11 stuff (except config files)
and loaded the slink X11 suff, and everything is now working.
--
Ed C.
