Did 8.0 -> 8.1 bite me in the fonts?
After upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1, it seems my font configuration was changed in such a way as to disable the fonts I had installed. I don't have a way to test this other than reinstalling 8.0, configuring my fonts as before, and then running the upgrade. NO THANKS! I do want to know what actually happened so I can advise the party responsible of the problem, and affect a change in future outcomes of upgrades, if indeed, this is the source of the problem. Part of what I think happened was that several of my own directories were removed from the XF86Config FontPath listing. Did anybody else notice something of this nature? -- STH Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law.
Hello Steven, Probably You needs make tar befor update, and after chenge XF86Config.Work not bad :) cheers STH> After upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1, it seems my font configuration was changed in STH> such a way as to disable the fonts I had installed. I don't have a way to STH> test this other than reinstalling 8.0, configuring my fonts as before, and STH> then running the upgrade. NO THANKS! STH> I do want to know what actually happened so I can advise the party responsible STH> of the problem, and affect a change in future outcomes of upgrades, if STH> indeed, this is the source of the problem. Part of what I think happened was STH> that several of my own directories were removed from the XF86Config FontPath STH> listing. STH> Did anybody else notice something of this nature? -- Best regards, dan07 mailto:dan07@neti.ee
On Friday 25 October 2002 06:50 am, dan07 wrote:
Hello Steven,
Probably You needs make tar befor update, and after chenge XF86Config.Work not bad :)
cheers
STH> After upgrading from 8.0 to 8.1, it seems my font configuration was changed in STH> such a way as to disable the fonts I had installed. I don't have a way to STH> test this other than reinstalling 8.0, configuring my fonts as before, and STH> then running the upgrade. NO THANKS!
STH> I do want to know what actually happened so I can advise the party responsible STH> of the problem, and affect a change in future outcomes of upgrades, if STH> indeed, this is the source of the problem. Part of what I think happened was STH> that several of my own directories were removed from the XF86Config FontPath STH> listing.
STH> Did anybody else notice something of this nature?
Now that you mention it, I did make a backup, but I only recovered the video part of the file. The problem I had was that I /thought/ everything was correct. I'm not sure that the change in my XFree86 caused the problem I had. I made several changed to my system at about the same time. I upgraded Mathematica, I am constantly updating Mozilla from CVS, I built a new XEmacs from CVS, and I upgraded SuSE from 8.0 -> 8.1. And I attempted to install a special set of fonts for mathematical symbols used in MathML display. All of these changes seem to have influenced the way my system used fonts, encodings, or performed rendering. Trying to determine which change caused which problem is difficult. I may have caused the problem by changing something by hand. I don't know. The change I noticed in the XFree86 was that this: FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/ams/pfa" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/PCF:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma4-1/PCF:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma4-1/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/corel/ttf" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/corel/type1" was replaced by FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local" I'm still not sure that the single line won't work. I now know how to recover the font configuration if this happens again. My problem is that I really don't know what broke the font configuration. I'm not trying to /blame/ SuSE. I just want to know if the upgrade caused a problem so I can tell them about it. At some point I lost my fonts.scale file in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/mma/Type1 I may have been the one who removed that. I don't know. When I started working with this, I really didn't understand font configuration. I still don't /understand/ it all, but at least I know how to fix the problem I had. -- STH Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law.
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