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Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

X wont start after installing some fonts

Hi!

Recently I've encounterd the following bug twice when installing Arch:

I do fresh Arch install from CD, upgrade to the latest packages, install and configure xorg, xfce, slim.
Everything works perfect.
Then I install ttf fonts that have cyrillic chars: ttf-ms-fonts, ttf-dejavu, ttf-mph-2b-damase and font-bh-ttf.
Then X stops working. Reinstalling these packages does not help.
To fix this I must reinstall fontconfig.
I suppose that some font package brokes font cache.
Anyone encountered the same problem?

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acetylcholine

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From: NY, USA

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 46

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Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

what does your xorg.conf font section look like?

Romashka

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Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

Section "Files"
        RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

But how is this related?

When X won't start it displays something about fonts/misc and wrong reference counter - 2 instead of 1. I couldn't post exact xorg.log as I'm on another machine now.

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misterwhite

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Registered: 2006-02-07

Posts: 7

Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

$fc-cache

worked for me when had a similar issue. hope that helps.

Romashka

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Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

I don't remember if fc-cache helped me, but reinstalling fontconfig helps.
Anyway the problem is not how to fix this, but where the bug is?
I'm going to take vacation, after that I'll check those font packages.

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tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

Reinstalling fontconfig helps because fc-cache is run during the install process. fc-cache should also be run every time a font package is installed - I just had a look at font-bh-ttf, and it runs fc-cache. Check the install scripts for the other font packages, and post bugs/UR comments as required - after your vacation, of course.

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

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Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

Ah, that's ttf-dejavu broken.  :evil:
JGC has written comment to AUR page already. And there is bug #5028

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: X wont start after installing some fonts

I think part of the problem is that the fontconfig package is bug-riddled.