* Bastien Nocera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 04:55, Carl B. Constantine wrote: > > I continue to have problems with this bug. Now X refuses to start > > because it can't locate the default cursor font. Here's the message: > > > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default cursor font 'cursor' > > > > But I do have a cursor font, even though I don't have xfonts-gimpers 1.8 > > installed (it refuses to install anyway). But I do have xfonts-artwiz > > installed. I purged xfonts-gimpers from my system and now X has a brain > > tumor. This is a critical bug and should have been fixed by now. > > 1) You're very welcome trying to fix it and NMU it. I only have so much > time to fix bugs.
I could, except I'm not 100% sure what the fix really is and I don't want to step on the toes of the other package maintainers (I'm only trying to become a debian developer myself with a package of ASD). > 2) Stop spamming me and the BTS, or use -quiet, I already receive a copy > of the mail you send to the BTS. I apologize for this. You should only get one copy of this mail (2 if you count the one to DD). > 3) I'm going to explain what's going on (or what I think is going on): > > xfonts-gimpers was piggy-backing on xfonts-artwiz' diversion of the > cursor font, so that xfonts-artwiz and xfonts-gimpers could be installed > at the same time. > > xfonts-artwiz split up the cursor and the fonts at some point, that's > where the mess begins. Yep. There's a file called /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-base in xfonts-base that was diverted from xfonts-artwiz. To me, this is a bug in xfonts-artwiz, it shouldn't do that. > I don't know what's happening, but when you upgrade xfonts-artwiz, it > removes the X cursor. Yep. My quick "hack" fix was to copy the file back to cursor.pcf.gz and that seems to work just fine. But it's really not "standard" and the appropriate package maintainers for xfonts-base, xfonts-artwiz, and xfonts-gimpers should get together and agree to the best course of action. I personally think, none of the extra packages should stomp on the xfonts-base versions unless they are completely renamed. -- ________________________________________________________________________ __ _ Carl B. Constantine / / (_)__ __ ____ __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / (2.4.18) http://www.duckwing.ca /____/_/_//_/\_ _/ /_/\_\ Debian 3.0 PGP key available on request ________________________________________________________________________ "Microsoft is not the Borg. The Borg have better tech support."