Bug 13963 - netscape 4.73's usage of chkfontpath munges /etc/X11/fs/config
Summary: netscape 4.73's usage of chkfontpath munges /etc/X11/fs/config
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 10128
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: chkfontpath
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-14 18:32 UTC by Burt Holzman
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-08-29 19:32:11 UTC
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Description Burt Holzman 2000-07-14 18:32:26 UTC
Apparently, upgrading to netscape 4.73 botches
/etc/X11/fs/config, by pre-pending 
/usr/X11R6/X11/fonts/75dpi to the fonts catalogue.

That would normally be well and good, but it is
missing a comma, so my config reads:

catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi
/usr/share/fonts/windows,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,

and fails to load the windows TTFs.  Please tell
netscape rpm to get out of my xfs.

- B

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-14 18:44:34 UTC
Netscape simply runs chkfontpath, it doesn't edit it directly.

Reassigned to chkfontpath.

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-08-29 18:43:42 UTC
your /etc/X11/fs/config file must have been in an 'unusual' state before
chkfontpath ran, as we have had no other bugreports of this nature.  Can you
please attach your /etc/X11/fs/config to this report?

Comment 3 Burt Holzman 2000-08-29 19:32:09 UTC
Here is my /etc/X11/fs/config:

#
# Default font server configuration file for Red Hat Linux 6.0
#

# allow a max of 4 clients to connect to this font server
client-limit = 4

# when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
clone-self = off

# alternate font servers for clients to use
#alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102

# where to look for fonts
# Some of these are commented out, i.e. the TrueType and Type1
# directories in /usr/share, because they aren't forced to be
# installed alongside X.
#
catalogue = 
/usr/share/fonts/windows,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/75dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/100dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2/Type1,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/75dpi,
/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-9/100dpi


Comment 4 Preston Brown 2000-08-30 18:24:13 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10128 ***


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