[nflug] apt ineptitude

matt donovan kitchetech at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 15:12:09 EST 2006


not sure what elive uses but if it's xorg 7.1 and you had xorg
6.9installed, xorg
7.x uses a different font path then 6.9 did

On 12/6/06, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
>
> Stephen Burke wrote:
> > Cyber Source wrote:
> >> Stephen Burke wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> It seems I am unable to do an apt-get upgrade ... dist-upgrade without
> >>> screwing things up royally. Not quite sure what I'm doing wrong, but
> >>> recently I did apt-get update, upgrade, dist-upgrade (one at a time)
> >>> on an elive (debian) system and apparently lost some crucial fonts.
> >>> Most things still work ok, but the popup automount type windows are
> >>> all showing little squares instead of letters. I get the same in the
> >>> mplayer menu, and gftp is entirely composed of squares. It probably
> >>> happens elsewhere, but that's all I've noticed so far.
> >>>
> >>> I'm assuming that some very basic font has gone missing, but I have no
> >>> idea which or where to begin looking for it. Any ideas?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> S.
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> >>
> >> Sounds like something got boned all right. I would start by having a
> >> look at /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/aptitude.log and your
> >> /var/log/Xorg logs
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> > Indeed. Thanks for the tip. Nothing in the first two, but I found this
> > in Xorg.0.log:
> >
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX" does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
> "/usr/share/fonts/truetype".
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype").
> > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
> > "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice".
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice").
> > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in
> > "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera".
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera").
> > (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
> > does not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID" does
> > not exist.
> > Entry deleted from font path.
> > (**) FontPath set to
> >
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> >
> > (**) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
> > (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
> >>
> >
> > Definitely looks ugly.
> >
> > I follwed the advice there like so:
> >
> > root at yasuo[/home/qfwfq]# mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype
> > root at yasuo[/home/qfwfq]# mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice
> > root at yasuo[/home/qfwfq]# mkfontdir
> > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera
> >
> > but I still have squares instead of letters.
> >
> > I was going to poke around in synaptic for fonts, but I now see that
> > it is entirely little squares. Is there a particular font package that
> > I can just apt-get?
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > S.
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> Your logs say the directory is not there. Do an "updatedb" then do a
> search for the font directory or fonts it says are missing. You also may
> have some packages that didn't get installed all the way or configured
> all the way and they are hanging in limbo, run "apt-get -f install" to
> see if any packages arent installed/configured all the way. I love to
> use "apt-cache search --names-only package" when searching for available
> packages. Replace "package" in the above line to "font" and look at the
> myriad of choices for fonts. You should also verify your repos for apt.
> I suspect though running "apt-get -f install" will show your culprit of
> the problems. Or search on your system and find where all your fonts went.
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