Re: X.org: Fatal server error [Solved]

2008-02-17 Thread Harald Weis 
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:44:13PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote:
 
 Fatal server error:
 could not open default font 'fixed'
 
I've learned two lessons.

1. As a constant user of portupgrade since ages, this time,
before and after the xorg-upgrade procedure, I have carelessly
omitted the `-R' option. No wonder that required packages
were missing.

2. The `pkg_info -L' check does not certify that the file is
actually in its place: between two checks I have removed all
the empty fontfiles in misc/, thereby getting rid again of 
fonts.alias as well :-( and forgot about it.
Now I know that the server is indeed looking first for
the `fixed' line in fonts.alias. If he does not find it,
he complains no matter how many fixed fonts are stored in misc/.

The fact that misc/ and three other directories in that machine
were only populated with a large number of empty fontfiles
remains weird though.

Thanks again for every reply, on-list and off-list.

HW
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Re: X.org: Fatal server error [Solved]

2008-02-17 Thread Parv 
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Harald Weis
thusly...

 2. The `pkg_info -L' check does not certify that the file is
 actually in its place

To actually verify the existence of the files, stat(2) them somehow
(will work at least in bourne like shells) ...

  pkg_info -L port-name \
  | awk '!/^(Info|Files:|$)/ { print $0 }' \
  | xargs ls -l /dev/null


... above will only show the error messages for missing files of a
port|package.


  - Parv

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