Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139051
ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo (unreadable)
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Description of problem: After fresh install of FC3 this message in syslog : Nov 11 09:36:14 remi xfs: Demarrage de xfs succeeded Nov 11 09:36:15 remi xfs[2748]: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo (unreadable) I don't see any problem in this directory (no difference with the same on e a FC2 machine). I'm searching a font problem because some prog. complains about missing font. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-12 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Booting or restarting xfs service Actual Results: Error in the /var/log/messages Expected Results: No message Additional info:
The system comes with all supplied font directories preconfigured, so that fonts can just be dropped into the pre-existing supplied directories, the correct commands executed to prepare the font metadata files (mkfontdir, ttmkfdir, mkfontscale, etc.) and fonts will be ready for use. Some of the preconfigured directories, such as the "Speedo" and "local" dirs are shipped without any fonts, but supplied for backwards compatibility, and for users to drop speedo fonts into, etc. This makes it easier for those users who do have speedo (or whatever particular fonts) to get them to work without having to manually add the font paths and get them in the correct place in the config. Since there are no fonts included however, xfs and possibly other applications will scan the directories looking for fonts, and if they do not find any, they will generate a warning message in the log file or to the console. These are just harmless warning messages indicating the particular font directory is configured for fonts, but does not contain any fonts. They are not error messages and do not indicate an error or problem condition. In other words, these harmless warning messages are unrelated to the problem you may be having. You may find the Red Hat public mailing lists to be helpful in troubleshooting your font related problem however. Hope this helps. Setting status to "NOTABUG"
Mike, there are fonts installed into Speedo dir by default: # ll /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo total 576 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73994 Oct 19 21:05 font0419.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73570 Oct 19 21:05 font0582.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74266 Oct 19 21:05 font0583.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73686 Oct 19 21:05 font0611.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59472 Oct 19 21:05 font0648.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61214 Oct 19 21:05 font0649.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59460 Oct 19 21:05 font0709.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61065 Oct 19 21:05 font0710.spd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1689 Oct 21 16:22 fonts.dir -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1689 Oct 19 21:05 fonts.scale # rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/font0649.spd fonts-xorg-base-6.8.1-1 And base-fonts is needed by (installed) xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.21.i386
yes, why is there 580k of no fonts? file magic says they are X11 Speedo fonts. I don't like errors on default installs.