xorg-server doesn't start?

Michel · 2006-02-20 13:12:59

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

tomk · 2006-02-20 13:33:44

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!

Michel · 2006-02-20 13:39:36

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!

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

Michel · 2006-02-20 13:47:05

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

Michel · 2006-02-20 13:53:55

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

tomk · 2006-02-20 14:00:09

$ 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. :?

Snowman · 2006-02-21 02:59:56

 $ 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.

sh__ · 2006-02-21 17:29:36

'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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xorg-server doesn't start?

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Re: xorg-server doesn't start?

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