[nflug] apt ineptitude

[Stephen Burke]

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

elive is "etch" I believe, whatever that means. Not sure how to 
determine which xorg is on there, since I'm used to "rpm -q" type systems.

Following Peter's advice below, the  "apt-get -f install" showed 
nothing. I looked through the cache list and then used apt to install 
xfonts-base, xfonts-100dpi, xfonts-75dpi, and ttf-freefont because they 
looked like good choices from that list, but fonts are still hosed.

Do you mean I should just be able to reset a path somewhere?
That would be sweet.
Googling now.
Thanks for the tip,
S.

> 
> On 12/6/06, *Cyber Source* <peter at thecybersource.com 
> <mailto: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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