Your message dated Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:05:18 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#395143: Fails to generate
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
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regarding Fails to generate /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
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Package: xfonts-base
Version: 1:1.0.0-4
Severity: normal
After installing and then uninstalling xpdf-chinese-simplified,
xfonts-intl-chinese, and xfonts-intl-chinese-big, I lost my 'fixed' font
and X11 won't start. (Since I'm not entirely confident about the
sequence of events, I'm not reporting this.)
When I reinstall xfonts-base, I see from the list of files that it
should generate /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias, but that doesn't
happen -- and I still don't have a 'fixed' font and can't run X.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii xfonts-utils 1:1.0.0-6 X Window System font utility progr
xfonts-base recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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[I'm so glad we answer bugs in a timely fashion... sigh]
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 14:08:11 -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
> Clarification: the package correctly generates
> /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias when first installed, so a
> workaround is to uninstall the package and then install it afresh. It
> would be useful if the reinstall script could check if
> /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias exists and create it if it doesn't.
>
That's how dpkg handles conffiles, not a bug in this package. Use dpkg
--force-confmiss to tell it to unpack missing conffiles.
Cheers,
Julien
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