On 25/01/2017 05:37, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I just finished a new install of Xorg using the current instructions in the > book. Unfortunately I get several warnings about fonts. In Xorg.0.log I > have: > > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in > "/opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/misc/". > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in > "/opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in > "/opt/xorg/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" > > The instructions we have creates these directories with fonts.alias as the > only file in each one. > > These warnings can be fixed by running mkfontdir on the directories. > > Perhaps a bit more of an issue is that tty1 gets a ton of warnings when > running twm (with xterm+xclock): > > Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-5 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset KOI8-R is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-7 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-13 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-14 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset JISX0208.1983-0 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset KSC5601.1987-0 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset GB2312.1980-0 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset JISX0201.1976-0 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-5 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset KOI8-R is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-7 is lacking. > twm: warning: font for charset ISO8859-13 is lacking. > > and a lot more totaling about 55 lines. > > I realize that these warning do not cause a functional problem, but many users > will be concerned. Perhaps we should put back some the the fonts recently > removed. I haven't tested it yet, but perhaps we need to add: > > font-adobe-100dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2 > font-adobe-75dpi-1.0.3.tar.bz2 > font-misc-misc-1.1.2.tar.bz2 > > --- Bruce
Not sure it is LFS-dev, but I let Bruce move the thread if he thinks it is worth it. Anyway, I think it'd be better to find the way to have twm use the newly installed fonts. Not sure now, but I think installing dejavu fonts allowed to remove the warnings. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
