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#1 2006-02-20 13:12:59

Michel
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2004-07-31
Posts: 286

xorg-server doesn't start?

Heya,

I installed xorg 7 from testing a zhile ago and everything was working after some extra downloads and configuration-changes. Howver, today I updated again (from current) and now xorg is broken.

I get the same error as in the polish(?) forums here: http://forum.archlinux.fc.pl/ftopic280.html&highlight=.

more specifically:

Couildn't open RGB_DB '/usr/lib/X11/rgb'

xkbcomp: unknown file or directory

and then the datal 'Could not find fixed font'-error.


Any idea how to solve this? This happens at an annoying moment (at work).

greatings,

Michel

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#2 2006-02-20 13:33:44

tomk
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From: Ireland
Registered: 2004-07-21
Posts: 9,839

Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

Ideally, you would have read the relevant news item before upgrading - it was posted a couple of days ago. However, all is not lost. Cerebral did the same thing as you, and posted the recovery procedure here.

Michel wrote:

This happens at an annoying moment (at work).

Using the testing repo in production? I'll be kind and say that takes some guts. Go for it! big_smile

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#3 2006-02-20 13:39:36

Michel
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2004-07-31
Posts: 286

Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

tomk wrote:

Ideally, you would have read the relevant news item before upgrading - it was posted a couple of days ago. However, all is not lost. Cerebral did the same thing as you, and posted the recovery procedure here.

Michel wrote:

This happens at an annoying moment (at work).

Using the testing repo in production? I'll be kind and say that takes some guts. Go for it! big_smile

Heya,


thank you. I'm using it on my laptop (which is important for me). However, testing is the last entry in my pacman-config, so only the packages which are only in testing will be downloaded from testing. The only package which I explicitly downloaded from testing was xorg 7.

greetings,

Michel

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#4 2006-02-20 13:47:05

Michel
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2004-07-31
Posts: 286

Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

Hello,

this didn't work. Can someone tell me in which package the font 'fixed is located and in which package the 'rgb'-file is located or which package creates it.

greetings,

Michel

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#5 2006-02-20 13:53:55

Michel
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2004-07-31
Posts: 286

Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

Heyq,

the problem is solved. It seems the font 'fixed' is part of the misc-fonts-package. Reinstalling it worked. I noticed that the command 'mkfontdir' didn't work earlier. I suppose that re(installing) those package mentionned in your second link helped.

thanks and greetings,

Michel

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#6 2006-02-20 14:00:09

tomk
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From: Ireland
Registered: 2004-07-21
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Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

$ pacman -Qo /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt
/usr/share/X11/rgb.txt is owned by xorg-server-utils 1.0.0-1

I'm afraid I can't help with the fixed font - it doesn't seem to exist on my machine. :?

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#7 2006-02-21 02:59:56

Snowman
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From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: 2004-08-20
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Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

 $ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/xkbcomp
/usr/bin/xkbcomp is owned by xorg-xkb-utils 1.0.1-1
$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/mkfontdir 
/usr/bin/mkfontdir is owned by xorg-font-utils 1.0.0-1

For fixed fonts, are you talking about bitmap fonts? If you're unsure, try installing xorg-fonts-75dpi or  xorg-fonts-100dpi . Read bottom of http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg7 to know which one you need.

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#8 2006-02-21 17:29:36

sh__
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Posts: 272

Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

'fixed' is an alias for a font that is part of xorg-fonts-misc:

$ grep ^fixed /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias 
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

$ grep -e -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.dir 
6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

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