Bug#253806: xvfb: Xvfb fails to start: could not open default font 'fixed'
retitle 253806 xfree86: [FAQ] add more troubleshooting advice for the 'could not open default font' question reassign 253806 xfree86 tag 235806 = thanks On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:28:41AM +0200, Floris Kraak wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > >1) What does "dpkg -s xfonts-base" say? > > Not sure since we fixed this particular problem since then (see 2) > However, it was a) installed, b) not broken, and c) the same version as > what was current in the repository at the time. I know this for sure. Okay. > >2) If you reinstall xfonts-base, does the problem go away? > > Yes. Though a normal reinstall wasn't enough, but purging it and > re-installing it then did work. That suggests to me that a conffile was involved. /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias, for example, is a conffile. If something stomped on that file such that the "fixed" line went missing... $ grep '\' /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias | head -n 1 fixed-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 ...then that would definitely cause your problem. > >3) Are any other packages shipping files in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc? > > dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc | cut -d : -f 1 | > sort -u > xfonts-base > xfonts-base, xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc > > Not sure what those bolkhov fonts are doing there. We sure as hell don't > need them .. Might want to make sure xfonts-bolkhov*'s maintainer scripts aren't doing anything evil... > >4) Is anything other than an official Debian package putting stuff in > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc? > > No. > > This one took us some time to figure out and debug, especially since xvfb > was not really helpful in telling us what was going wrong and why. Since > reinstalling xfonts-base did help (but it needed a purge!) maybe it's a > good idea to put the purge-and-reinstall option in the documentation or > something.. I apologize for the difficulty you experienced. Looks like I need to expand the answer to the following FAQ entry: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#fixedfont I am therefore re-purposing this bug to that end, since your problem is resolved. -- G. Branden Robinson|If you make people think they're Debian GNU/Linux |thinking, they'll love you; but if [EMAIL PROTECTED] |you really make them think, they'll http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |hate you.-- Don Marquis signature.asc Description: Digital signature
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Bug#253806: xvfb: Xvfb fails to start: could not open default font 'fixed'
Branden Robinson wrote:
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
There's your problem.
I suspect xfonts-base failed to configure; another package which
dumps fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc failed to configure; or
another package which dumps fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc is
horrendously broken.
I have a few questions that may help track the problem down:
1) What does "dpkg -s xfonts-base" say?
Not sure since we fixed this particular problem since then (see 2)
However, it was a) installed, b) not broken, and c) the same version as what was
current in the repository at the time. I know this for sure.
2) If you reinstall xfonts-base, does the problem go away?
Yes. Though a normal reinstall wasn't enough, but purging it and re-installing
it then did work.
3) Are any other packages shipping files in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc?
dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc | cut -d : -f 1 |
sort -u
xfonts-base
xfonts-base, xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc
Not sure what those bolkhov fonts are doing there. We sure as hell don't need
them ..
4) Is anything other than an official Debian package putting stuff in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc?
No.
This one took us some time to figure out and debug, especially since xvfb was
not really helpful in telling us what was going wrong and why. Since
reinstalling xfonts-base did help (but it needed a purge!) maybe it's a good
idea to put the purge-and-reinstall option in the documentation or something..
Regards,
Floris Kraak
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by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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Bug#253806: xvfb: Xvfb fails to start: could not open default font 'fixed'
tag 253806 + moreinfo
thanks
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:16:04AM +0200, Floris Kraak wrote:
> Package: xvfb
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
> Severity: important
>
> Xvfb fails to start, complaining about the 'fixed' font. The recommendations
> made in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz have been followed as suggested
> by the package, (including checking font dirs in /etc/XF86Config and
> reinstalling xfonts-base) but to no avail. Using strace yields the
> information
> that Xvfb _is_ reading the fonts.dir where the 'fixed' font is supposed to be
> living but somehow still fails to find the actual font.
[...]
> open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)
There's your problem.
I suspect xfonts-base failed to configure; another package which
dumps fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc failed to configure; or
another package which dumps fonts into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc is
horrendously broken.
I have a few questions that may help track the problem down:
1) What does "dpkg -s xfonts-base" say?
2) If you reinstall xfonts-base, does the problem go away?
3) Are any other packages shipping files in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc?
dpkg -S usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
4) Is anything other than an official Debian package putting stuff in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc?
--
G. Branden Robinson|
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Bug#253806: xvfb: Xvfb fails to start: could not open default font 'fixed'
Package: xvfb
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
Severity: important
Xvfb fails to start, complaining about the 'fixed' font. The recommendations
made in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz have been followed as suggested
by the package, (including checking font dirs in /etc/XF86Config and
reinstalling xfonts-base) but to no avail. Using strace yields the information
that Xvfb _is_ reading the fonts.dir where the 'fixed' font is supposed to be
living but somehow still fails to find the actual font.
Installed versions of relevant packages
xserver-common: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
xfonts-base: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
xutils: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
I have appended the strace information to the end of this report.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xvfb depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype62.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
-- no debconf information
Strace information:
(obtained with: strace Xvfb :99 -screen 0 640x480x8 -nolisten tcp >
xvfb_strace.log 2>&1)
execve("/usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb", ["Xvfb", ":99", "-screen", "0", "640x480x8",
"-nolisten", "tcp"], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="hq", ...})= 0
brk(0) = 0x840a000
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40017000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=46036, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 46036, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40018000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\345"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=447212, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 446176, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40024000
old_mmap(0x4008a000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x66000) = 0x4008a000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0P\27\0\000"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=67304, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 66268, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40091000
old_mmap(0x400a1000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x1) = 0x400a1000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0006\0"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=141312, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x400a2000
old_mmap(NULL, 139712, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x400a3000
old_mmap(0x400c5000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x22000) = 0x400c5000
close(3)= 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340X\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1279012, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 1289324, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x400c6000
old_mmap(0x401f6000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3,
0x12f000) = 0x401f6000
old_mmap(0x401ff000, 7276, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x401ff000
close(3)= 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x40201000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0x400a2ba0, limit:1048575,
seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0,
useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0x40018000, 46036) = 0
geteuid32() = 1006
getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, {rlim_cur=1024, rlim_max=1024}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x840a000
brk(0x842b000) = 0x842b000
brk(0) = 0x842b000
close(0)= 0
close(1)= 0
write(2, "", 0) = 0
getpgrp() = 21455
open("/tmp/.tX99-lock", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0644) = 0
getpid()= 21456
write(0, " 21456\
