Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xfonts-scalable
This bug appears to be already known, but I cannot find a bug report for it. Existing discussion is at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=313994 . I was bitten both by bug #63408 (which is mentioned in the above thread, and which I fixed) and also by their "empty fonts.dir" problem. aptitude reinstall on both x-ttcidfont-conf and ttf-bitstream-vera had no visible effect for me - "xlsfonts | grep vera" found no lines. Using their proposed fix: cd /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType sudo cp fonts.scale fonts.dir and restarting X (log out and back in) solved the problem entirely. Prior to this, fonts.dir existed but was only two bytes long. I think the first was the (ASCII) digit zero; the second was a newline. (I was looking at it through hd, and 0x30 0x0A rings a bell. (Ok, ok, that's 0x07, I know :-)) Anyway, this seems to be a simple matter to fix, and as no-one else (appears to have) submitted it, here it is. PS Apologies if this is the wrong package to report the bug against; dpkg -S tells me that /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/fonts.dir is from xfonts-scalable. ** Affects: xfonts-scalable (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- Empty fonts.dir file stops fonts being found https://launchpad.net/bugs/86704 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
