not sure what elive uses but if it's xorg 7.1 and you had xorg 6.9 installed, xorg 7.x uses a different font path then 6.9 did<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cyber Source</b> <<a href="mailto:peter@thecybersource.com">peter@thecybersource.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Stephen Burke wrote:<br>> Cyber Source wrote:<br>>> Stephen Burke wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Hi all,
<br>>>><br>>>> It seems I am unable to do an apt-get upgrade ... dist-upgrade without<br>>>> screwing things up royally. Not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but<br>>>> recently I did apt-get update, upgrade, dist-upgrade (one at a time)
<br>>>> on an elive (debian) system and apparently lost some crucial fonts.<br>>>> Most things still work ok, but the popup automount type windows are<br>>>> all showing little squares instead of letters. I get the same in the
<br>>>> mplayer menu, and gftp is entirely composed of squares. It probably<br>>>> happens elsewhere, but that's all I've noticed so far.<br>>>><br>>>> I'm assuming that some very basic font has gone missing, but I have no
<br>>>> idea which or where to begin looking for it. Any ideas?<br>>>><br>>>> Thanks,<br>>>> S.<br>>>> _______________________________________________<br>>>> nflug mailing list
<br>>>> <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>>>> <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>>>><br>>><br>>> Sounds like something got boned all right. I would start by having a
<br>>> look at /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/aptitude.log and your<br>>> /var/log/Xorg logs<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> nflug mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">
nflug@nflug.org</a><br>>> <a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>><br>> Indeed. Thanks for the tip. Nothing in the first two, but I found this<br>
> in Xorg.0.log:<br>><br>> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist.<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" does not exist.
<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" does not exist.
<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" does not exist.<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype").<br>> (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in<br>> "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice".<br>
> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice").<br>> (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in<br>> "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera".
<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera").<br>> (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist.<br>> Entry deleted from font path.
<br>> (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"<br>> does not exist.<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" does
<br>> not exist.<br>> Entry deleted from font path.<br>> (**) FontPath set to<br>> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
<br>><br>> (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"<br>> (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"<br>>><br>><br>> Definitely looks ugly.<br>><br>> I follwed the advice there like so:
<br>><br>> root@yasuo[/home/qfwfq]# mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype<br>> root@yasuo[/home/qfwfq]# mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice<br>> root@yasuo[/home/qfwfq]# mkfontdir<br>> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera
<br>><br>> but I still have squares instead of letters.<br>><br>> I was going to poke around in synaptic for fonts, but I now see that<br>> it is entirely little squares. Is there a particular font package that
<br>> I can just apt-get?<br>><br>> Thanks again,<br>> S.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br>>
<a href="http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug">http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug</a><br>><br>Your logs say the directory is not there. Do an "updatedb" then do a<br>search for the font directory or fonts it says are missing. You also may
<br>have some packages that didn't get installed all the way or configured<br>all the way and they are hanging in limbo, run "apt-get -f install" to<br>see if any packages arent installed/configured all the way. I love to
<br>use "apt-cache search --names-only package" when searching for available<br>packages. Replace "package" in the above line to "font" and look at the<br>myriad of choices for fonts. You should also verify your repos for apt.
<br>I suspect though running "apt-get -f install" will show your culprit of<br>the problems. Or search on your system and find where all your fonts went.<br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list
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