almost there

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

>>
>> Your fonts.dir and fonts.aliases files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts are
>> corrupted either rebuild them or copy the fonts from a Linux machine

>they certainly appear to be ok... they are directly from the
>xfree86-4.0-fonts.tar.bz2 file, and when I look at those files after
>decompressing and untarring, they look fine

I do not think they are Ok, otherwise you should not get errors.


>I tried downloading again from a different mirror, and re-installed,
>but the same thing happens

>are there binary/text mount issues that could be involved?  I tried
>both with /, /usr/lib, and /usr/bin mounted in binmode and texmode, but
>with the same results

Could be.

>I don't need to gunzip the individual font files, do I?

>if you still think I need to rebuild them, how do I do that?  mkfontdir?

Yes.  Add /usr/X11R6/bin to your path.

then each subdirectory under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts,
run mkdfondir.


Suhaib


>thanks,

>-JT