On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:24:18 -0700 "W. B. Maguire II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm really confused about this one... > > When I set-up my Gentoo box (maybe a year ago), I used the (now > extinct) Desktop guide, which "strongly" suggested using the XFS > font server. Dutifully, I installed it (with "emerge xfs" IIRC). > Now, it wasn't more than a few weeks ago when I was asking in the > Forum about the need for XFS (since I wasn't actually *serving* > any fonts to *anyone*). The responses led me to believe that > there wasn't any advantage to continuing to use the X Font > Server, so I decided that I'd remove it at some point in the > future (no time at the present). I decided to upgrade from my > "old" 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 to the 2.4.28-gentoo-r5 today, and so I > rebooted. X then failed, telling me: > > * Starting X Font Server ... > start-stop-daemon: > stat "/usr/X11R6/bin/xfs" : No such file or directory > > Sure enough, the file was *gone*! It's a little Twilight > Zone'ish! I can't find any reference indicating that there ever > *was* any "xfs" package! I even did an: > > $ equery belongs /etc/init.d/xfs > $ equery belongs /etc/conf.d/xfs > > and---of course---they both show no "owner"! > > When did XFS disappear? Shouldn't *something* have informed me > that it was deleting the file? Or that the X Font Server was > going away? I 'grep'ped all over my "/var/log/portage/*.log" > files for any mention of it, and I couldn't find anything. > > Can anyone enlighten me? > It's now a USE flag option for xorg. If you recently updated xorg, then you'll need to recompile with USE="font-server" selected. That'll put the x font server back on your system. Good luck John -- [email protected] mailing list
