Description of problem: After running "yum update", xfs configuration was ruined. Presumably fonts-japanese added ":unscaled". Current xfs stops working if it encounters ":unscaled". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fonts-japanese-0.20061016-3.fc7 xorg-x11-xfs-1.0.2-3.1 How reproducible: Unclear... Steps to Reproduce: 0. Use a config like the attached 1. Update from a previous verion of fonts-japanese Actual results: Duplicate entries for font paths, ":unscaled" is present. Expected results: No ":unscaled". Additional info: The xfs starts and seems to work, but X aborts with ``unable to open font "cursor"''.
Created attachment 149213 [details] Broken config after update
You've missed comma after line 17. BTW :unscaled is automatically added by chkfontpath though, have you modifed your xfs config file by the hand? I'm quite not sure why it happened anyway.
s/it/missing :unscaled for 75dpi and 100dpi as well/
I see. The "unscaled:" was not relevant. The font "cursor" got missing because of the missing comma. I do not edit anything by hand as a rule. I think that some other program modifying the configuration made the paths flush with the left side at some point. Then, the post-installation of fonts-japanese was confused by that.
Hmm, then there are nothing else I can do on fonts-japanese. adding the font path into xfs config really relies on chkfontpath and have never done any special there. Should I reassign this to chkfontpath? or what exactly is "some other program"?
Yes, please reassign as appropriate. I'm wholly ignorant about what program actually edits the file.
Ok. if you can provide any info when it happened and what packages were updated, it would be helpful. AFAIK chkfontpath is only one to update xfs's config file as the program. so I'm reassigning this to chkfontpath so far.
We no longer use chkfontpath or xfs, font packages are now required to drop symlinks in fontpath.d. Which fonts-japanese does, so I'm closing this. Thanks to everybody involved ;)