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Re: help... X-Server crashed after update
Well - I finally got back to my odyssey after a couple of days off of
it. Family, life and other stuff intervenes now and then ya know...
Jeff, thanks for the suggestions. First thing I did was run
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
followed by a rebuild of the font cache
$ sudo fc-cache -f -v
output:
/usr/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 3 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 6 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts,
0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 22 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic: caching, new cache contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/baekmuk: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: caching, new cache contents: 12 fonts,
0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi: caching, new cache contents: 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: caching, new cache contents: 60
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts,
0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-arabeyes: caching, new cache contents: 39
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bengali-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 5
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera: caching, new cache contents:
10 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu: caching, new cache contents: 21
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-devanagari-fonts: caching, new cache
contents: 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-gentium: caching, new cache contents: 4
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-gujarati-fonts: caching, new cache contents:
5 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-kannada-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 7
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lao: caching, new cache contents: 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-malayalam-fonts: caching, new cache contents:
2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-mgopen: caching, new cache contents: 16
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-oriya-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-punjabi-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 1
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-tamil-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 8
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-telugu-fonts: caching, new cache contents: 2
fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 4 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1: caching, new cache contents: 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, new cache contents: 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/home/lacs/.fonts: skipping, no such directory
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
/home/lacs/.fontconfig: not cleaning non-existent cache directory
fc-cache: succeeded
Sure seems to be alot of empty font dirs... and, not only that... all
100dpi and 75dpi font sets are empty AFTER reinstall!???!!!
so, just for grins, I try
$ startx
and crash with the same errors - same missing "fixed" font
Then, I looked up the 'xorg ati' driver Jeff suggested I try... and found
it's embedded within the xserver-xorg-video-ati and xserver-xorg-driver-ati
packages. So...
what next should I do? It seems doing a reinstall is not getting the job
done. If I try 'sudo aptitude install --reinstall' I get a message saying
it's not super cow - whatever that means... (ok - I get it - "aptitude -v
moo" then aptitude -vv moo then aptitude -vvv moo, etc for the amusement
of those with too much time on their hands [easter eggs] and even more fun
with "cowsay" tisk-tisk)
So, I try
$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-driver-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati
response:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reinstallation of xserver-xorg-driver-ati is not possible, it cannot be
downloaded.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb: Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but
it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but
it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not
going to be installed
openoffice.org-l10n-en-za: Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.2) but
it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not
going to be installed
Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.3) but
it is not going to be installed or
language-support-en but it is not
going to be installed
xserver-xorg-driver-ati: Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-r128
Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-radeon
xserver-xorg-video-ati: Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.4) but
1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.13 is to be installed
Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-ati but
1:6.5.7.3-0ubuntu7 is to be installed
Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-r128
Conflicts: xserver-xorg-driver-radeon
well - I suppose I should've checked to see what drivers I've got
installed... no joy...
The thing is - ya know, everything was working fine for a couple of
years. Why did this get so conflicted with the last update? Geez... I am
getting quite frustrated. I want my machine back... This is the most
challenging issue I've had to face this year so far - I don't want to trash
the machine and I really don't want to do a complete re-install. Heck, it
shouldn't be so hard...
ok - enuf whining - should I do as suggested by Jason and remove X and try
reinstalling X from ground up? It sure seems most of the fonts and now the
X server is completely crapped out - and the normal reconfig stuff isn't
helping and the standard reinstalls aren't doing what they should be
doing. All I know is I've gone from what I thought was a simple font issue
to loss of xserver - and nothing so far is working.
-Laszlo
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