Hello there. Would your system still fail with empty .xinitrc? (mv ~/.xinitrc ~/dangerous_xinitrc && touch ~/.xinitrc) You don't need ampersand for fonts rehashing. Is that line is only one you have in your .xinitrc? Do you have system xinitrc? (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) Is it empty? Igor Mosyagin cellular: +79265279171 jabber: cramur@xxxxxxxxxxxx skype: cr4mur > Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 03:54:37 +0000 (UTC) > From: "Juan R. de Silva" <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx> > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [arch-general] X fails to start after editing ~/.xinitrc > Message-ID: <j46ptt$jt0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:45:49 +0200, Karol Blazewicz wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Juan R. de Silva >> <juan.r.d.silva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> 3. In case net-tools package from core does not provide hostname any >>> more as well, what would be a solution then for one that would like to >>> use "terminus" fonts which by default installed into >>> /usr/share/fonts/local? >> >> I've never had any problems with Terminus being added to fontpath in >> .xinitrc but you can use xorg.conf for that too. > > To use xorg.conf I would need first to create one, since my system works > without it so far. Unless I really must to create it I would prefer to > leave things as their are for now. > >> If you have net-tools installed, you shouldn't be getting errors about >> hostname being missing. > > Yes, net-tools is installed. However the error is as I said. > >> hostname will be provided by inetutils, as was explained in the mailing >> list message I linked to. I'm currently running testing and I have no >> problems with X, hostname does its job (whatever that might be ;P), I'm >> using Terminus and have 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &; in my >> .xinirtc - all seems to work. > > You typed above: 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &; > > Is it a typo or you meant to say your .xinitrc has line like this? > > 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local &' - with ampersand at the end > > If the last is true then it differs from my entry, which is > > 'xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/local' - without ampersand. > > Does it make sense to add it?.. > > >> When I downgrade to [core] (i.e. I'm not using [testing] anymore), >> things still work, so the current net-tools should be all you need. > > Here a snippet I found in 'man xset': > > [ fp rehash: > > The rehash argument resets the font path to its current value, > causing the server to reread the font databases in the current > font path. This is generally only used when adding new fonts > to a font directory (after running mkfontdir to recreate the > font database). ] > > I actually never run 'mkfontdir' after Terminus fonts were installed > since the Fonts Installation wiki page I referred to mentions that > executing 'mkfontscale' and then 'mkfontdir' is needed only for "older > applications that do not support fontconfig". > > Do you think this might be a problem? > >
