font.dir a font.alias related with Can't start X

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

> I do not think Xinstall.sh is causing fonts corruption.  I tested
> Xinstall.sh several times on my systems before posting and I did not
> have any fonts corruption. Can you try the following on your system?
> Move the extract.exe out somewhere, (should not be in path) where
> Xinstall.sh cannot find it.  Then try the following (assuming you have
> all the archives Xinstall.sh in /tmp directory.)
> 
> cd /tmp
> ln -s /usr/bin extract.exe

ooops... it should be ln -s /usr/bin/tar extract.exe


Sorry for mistake

Suhaib


> sh Xinstall.sh
> 
> If you still get fonts corruption then something else is going on, if
> you do not then we need to investigate extract.exe.
> 
> Suhaib
> 
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Luc
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > I do not understand what are you doing... mixing and matching fonts?
> > You need to make sure your fonts files are not corruptd.  Isoxxx is
> > not
> > same
> > as misc fonts.
> >
> > Suhaib
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I had a look on those 2 files in /usr/X11R6/lib/fonts/misc/
> > >
> > > font.dir
> > > ...
> > > 7x14.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-
> iso10646-
> > 1
> > > ...
> > >
> > > font.alias
> > > 7x14         -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-
> iso8859-
> > 1
> > >
> > > I'm not an expert, but I thing there is something curious... one
> > time
> > > we
> > > speack about iso10646 (I'don't have any file containing this name
> in
> > > font dir) and an other time we speak about iso8859.
> > > This is true ofr this line, but for many others.
> > >
> > > Note that I can't start X saying that -coud not open default font
> > > 'fixed'- that's why I had look in those file.