[LUNI] XFree86 font problems

[GMC-jimmy]

Are you using xfs-ttf for a font server ?

I just did a dist-upgrade to woody last night, and got the same error you did.

I noticed that apt-get replaces xfs with xfs-ttf (TrueType Font).
And configures xfs-ttf to run on port 7110.

However, my XF86Config-4 file wasn't changed from the old unix:7100 to the 
new port settings.
Once I made the change by hand to the new port, everything ran smoothly.

Here's my new font settings.

Section "Files"
	FontPath "unix/:7110"
EndSection


Hope this helps.

Robert C. Ramsdell wrote:
> To all of you who responded to my post yesterday, thanks.  Following up on
> your suggestions helped me to learn a lot about X and fonts.  However, I
> still have not solved the problem!
>
> To recap:  I recently did an apt-get upgrade on my Debian Woody system,
> with a working version of XFree86 4.0, kde, etc.  The upgrade included
> XFree86 4.1.0.1  After the upgrade I logged out.  Now X will not restart,
> complaining about the fonts.  I have attached copies of the log file, my
> XF86Config, fonts.dir, xfonts-base.alias below.
>
> To date I've tried (as suggested here, and on the Debian and other mailing
> lists, and in various FAQs, man pages, etc):
>
> (1) Deleting the quote marks in the file
> /etc/X11/xsession.d/99xfree86-common-start.  This file had no quotes in it.
> (2) running mkfontdir on my font directories.  This seemed to run fine, but
> made no difference.
> (3)  Re-installing xfonts-base. (dpkg -i
> xfonts-base-latest_version_number.deb)
> (4) Re-making the xfonts-base.alias file (I forget the command I used)
> (5) Changing the font defined as 'fixed' in xfonts-base.alias
> (6) Verifying that the font files exist on my system
>
> I noticed that xfs is not installed, but according to the documentation
> XFree86 should not need a font server.  Is this right?  Then why did the
> system work before?  Anyways, installing xfs is not possible due to an
> unrelated, (but complementary) bug that requires X to configure packages.
>
> Is there some stupid error in these files I'm missing?
>
> Robert


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