Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 90154
mkfontdir is missing release-notes
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:53:27 EDT
Description of problem: When following the release notes for adding fonts you are presented with the following message: chkfontpath: error opening /usr/share/fonts/local/fonts.dir, unwilling to add path Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Redhat 9.0 How reproducible: always on new installations Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create the /usr/share/fonts/local/ directory (if it doesn't already exist): mkdir /usr/share/fonts/local/ If you had to create /usr/share/fonts/local/, you must then add it to the X font server (xfs) path: chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/local/ Corrective action: Modify the release notes: 1. Create the /usr/share/fonts/local/ directory (if it doesn't already exist): mkdir /usr/share/fonts/local/ If you had to create /usr/share/fonts/local/, you must then first create fonts.dir add the new directory to the X font server (xfs) path: cd /usr/share/fonts/local mkfontdir chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/local/ 2. Copy the new font file into /usr/share/fonts/local/ 3. Update the font information by issuing the following command: ttmkfdir -d /usr/share/fonts/local/ -o /usr/share/fonts/local/fonts.scale 4. Reload the xfs font server using the following command: service xfs reload
Probably the addition of mkfontdir is needed, but the ordering should be: mkdir cp ttmkfdir mkfontdir chkfontpath Since the fonts.scale is needed for fonts.dir. However, trying this out, I'm getting an empty fonts.scale, so some more studying is needed to figure that out.
Hmmmm, WORKSFORME (Owen's sequence, that is -- the release notes as written is definitely wrong). Thanks for bring this to our attention! I'm going to close this as NEXTRELEASE; the updated instructions will appear in the release notes for the next release of Red Hat Linux.
*** Bug 97171 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***