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I updated my unstable desktop the other night and was immediately bitten by a couple of minor bugs:
- The /usr/X11R6/bin directory didn't get moved
- Because I had opera installed.
- The fonts were all screwed.
- Because they've moved to a new location.
- Several "important" packages were removed.
All of this is explained in the X11R7 announcement message posted yesterday.
Hopefully things will be fixed soonish. I'm going to go through my packages tonight to make sure I don't need to do anything. I think I'm safe since 99% of my packages are network based rather than GUI based.
Then it is just a case of waiting for packages I miss to be reuploaded to sort out the transition. (xlockmore, xautolock, etc. Things I don't need but do like to have).
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it seems like sites with verdena and/or arial fonts gets screwed.
the thing is that it was fine on 6.9, so i dont really know whats going on.
i dont know if its just me or everyone on 7.0 get this problem, i have these font packages installed:
ii xfonts-100dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1.0.0-2 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-artwiz 1.3-3 x11 fonts created by Artwiz, TigerT, and Dan
ii xfonts-base 1.0.0-3 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-encodings 1.0.0-2 Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii xfonts-scalable 1.0.0-4 scalable fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1.0.0-3 X Window System font utility programs
another problem i have is that the mouse theme from gtk2-engines-industrial is broken as well.
here are the xserver-xorg packages i have:
ii xserver-xorg-core 1.0.2-4 X.Org X server -- core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1.0.1.3-2 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1.0.4-2 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii xserver-xorg-video-nv 1.0.1.5-2 X.Org X server -- NV display driver
and the nvidia deb stuff as well.
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Fonts were not working at all. Xorg was giving the error "Cannot load font : fixed", or similar, and failing to start.
Look at the recent Debian-User mailing list archive for more discussion on broken-looking fonts. Happily that didn't happen to me.
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It took me a while to work out what was going on, mainly thanks to the awful logging in X.
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VNC viewer version 3.3.7 - built Apr 21 2006 21:11:37
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
Warning: Unable to load any usable ISO8859 font
Error: Aborting: no font found
Isnt that wonderful?
Do you guys have any idea on how to fix it? or are we screwed and we just have to wait it out untill whoever is working on the unstable tree fix it?
Thanks!
-dan
dan at thaumatocracy dot com
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My Debian Etch AMD64 system blew-up today when I tried to upgrade it today. There was a symlink in /usr/X11R6 for Opera and it didn't like it. Now the whole x.org system is in a mess and neither apt-get nor aptitude can fix it. Not helped by a missing AMD64 package too, but it didn't warn me about that, until after is screwed things up!
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To be honest my memory is a little hazy now. But I do remember that I removed Opera, and retried the upgrade until it worked.
Perhaps "apt-get install --reinstall xwindow-system-core", or similar will help?
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After my break I returned to the box, and removed xorg/x11 things one at a time until I hit a dependancy that would break KDE or GNOME. Then I added packages back packages one at a time (wget and dpkg -i), cleaning up where aptitude had failed initially. I only added a few things, one forced, and eventually aptitude got it self sorted and I got X/KDE running okay again on the nv rather than nvidia driver.
A short fiddle with module-assistant built the nvidia kernel and it's all fiexed now!
I'll never remember what I did when I break it next time...
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