> > I have compared the fonts-base packages from FC5 and devel and they > > differ only in content of the font files (*.pcf.gz). So something must > > be changed in the xorg-x11-server package and I have found a note in the > > changelog for version 1.1.1-10.fc6 (revision 1.130 from July 26): > > "- Fix default font path to match the config file we used to generate" > > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/xorg-x11-server/devel/xorg-x11-server.spec?rev=1.165&view=log > > > > Could someone explain the consequences of this change to me? > > I recently updated the fonts packages to fix a cosmetic issue when uninstalling: > > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197208 > > The change was to change lines of the form > > if [ "$1" = "0" ]; then > > to > > if [ "$1" = "0" -a -d %{_x11fontdir}/misc ]; then > > in the %postun sections, so the script is only run when the font directory in > question exists. The change looks good to me, but maybe I'm missing > something. It definitely sounds related to the problem you're seeing. But doesn't the situation without the %{_x11fontdir}/misc directory mean, that there was not any fonts.dir (or any other) file created in this directory normally during the postinstall script? That the uninstall process will remove all files (*.pcf.gz and fonts.alias) and also the misc directory? For example when postinstall script failed? The non-existent fonts.dir would explain the situation - fonts.alias maps the short font name (eg. fixed) into the full name "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-...", but without the fonts.dir the X server doesn't know how to map the *.pcf.gz file to the full font name. Could someone do a mock install of xorg-x11-fonts-misc and check whether the fonts.dir file is created? Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
