[nflug] apt ineptitude
Stephen Burke
qfwfq at adelphia.net
Fri Dec 8 00:04:57 EST 2006
Ok, now the problem has been solved. Whether it was the hard way or the
easy way, I'm still not sure, since I was hoping to maybe learn a thing
or two about fonts. But, after messing around for a while and not fixing
anything, I thought maybe just another apt-get upgrade would so the
trick, and was further encouraged when I saw the font stuff in here:
The following packages will be upgraded:
cdrdao dash debootstrap gconf2 gconf2-common gsfonts-x11 iptables
liba52-0.7.4 libgconf2-4 libglib2.0-0 libindex0 libmimelib1c2a
libpango1.0-common msttcorefonts tar xfonts-100dpi-transcoded
xfonts-scalable xfonts-terminus xfs xnest xprint xvfb
All seemed to go well, but to test things further I decided to reboot
and have somehow now completely lost X. It will still boot in recovery
mode, but since the fonts were still pooched before, a whole X wrestling
match seems futile. I suspect that has something to do with failing X,
actually.
I was truly enjoying the *working* e17, but now I guess it's time to
taste a new nix flavor over there. Naturally, I had just finished
configuring it just to my liking before this fiasco started.
Thanks for the tips and commands along the way,
S.
Stephen Burke wrote:
> 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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