Trying to get slak current up and running. X exits with above error.
Checked the font paths, etc. Everything appears normal. Tried on two
different machines. Laptop and Desktop. So it seems to be hardware
independent. Both got radeon chipsets though. Anybody else getting this
error. Its a showstopper. If anybody can throw some light on this, that
would be great.

Frank Fox

ffox@optusnet.com.au

Frank Fox <ffox@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> If anybody can throw some light on this, that
> would be great.
>

Did you follow the UPGRADE.TXT file's steps? How exactly did you proceed? I
remember this problem when the first -current came out, and Pat had ficed it
by changing the order in UPGRADE.TXT

martin@dalmalca.sekurity.com wrote:

> Did you follow the UPGRADE.TXT file's steps? How exactly did you proceed? I
> remember this problem when the first -current came out, and Pat had ficed it
> by changing the order in UPGRADE.TXT
>
It is fresh install. Not an upgrade. I have looked at UPGRADE.TXT some
time ago. But not recently. I will have another look and see if there is
anything that might help.

Frank Fox

ffox@optusnet.com.au

> Trying to get slak current up and running. X exits with above error.
> Checked the font paths, etc. Everything appears normal. Tried on two
> different machines. Laptop and Desktop. So it seems to be hardware
> independent. Both got radeon chipsets though. Anybody else getting this
> error. Its a showstopper. If anybody can throw some light on this, that
> would be great.

Install l/expat first before installing the new fonts in x/
if you haven't installed expat, try install expat and reinstalling the
font packages
That solves my problem

See my blog here: http://willysr.blogspot.com/2007/03/...e-current.html

> Trying to get slak current up and running. X exits with above error.
> Checked the font paths, etc. Everything appears normal. Tried on two
> different machines. Laptop and Desktop. So it seems to be hardware
> independent. Both got radeon chipsets though. Anybody else getting this
> error. Its a showstopper. If anybody can throw some light on this, that
> would be great.

You need to install expat library before installing the new font
packages
If you install expat after installing the font packages, try
reinstalling the font-packages again and it will solve your problem

Frank Fox wrote:

> Trying to get slak current up and running. X exits with above error.
> Checked the font paths, etc. Everything appears normal. Tried on two
> different machines. Laptop and Desktop. So it seems to be hardware
> independent. Both got radeon chipsets though. Anybody else getting this
> error. Its a showstopper. If anybody can throw some light on this, that
> would be great.
>
> Frank Fox
>
> ffox@optusnet.com.au

Assuming you've double checked you've installed /all/ the new X packages,
run pkgtool, and under setup scripts, rerun the mkfontdir and fontconfig
scripts.

Regards,

--
Fred Emmott
(http://www.fredemmott.co.uk)
(http://www.slamd64.com)

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:22:01 +0100, mail@fredemmott.co.uk wrote:

>> Trying to get slak current up and running. X exits with above error.
>> Checked the font paths, etc. Everything appears normal. Tried on two
>> different machines. Laptop and Desktop. So it seems to be hardware
>> independent. Both got radeon chipsets though. Anybody else getting this
>> error. Its a showstopper. If anybody can throw some light on this, that
>> would be great.

I had this yesterday with ARMedslack and the new Xorg.

It was because I was missing the package 'font-misc-misc' package.
Once I built and installed that and ran
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/misc/
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/misc/

That fixed it.

> Assuming you've double checked you've installed /all/ the new X packages,
> run pkgtool, and under setup scripts, rerun the mkfontdir and fontconfig
> scripts.
>
> Regards,
>

Got it! Because of the way I installed it, mkfontdir and fontconfig had
not been run. My fault. Thanks to all those that replied.

Frank Fox

ffox@optusnet.com.au