[UCLA-LUG] Re: [SGVLUG] font trouble

[Dan Kegel]

TYSON BENTON ROGERS <tysonr@ucla.edu> wrote:
> I followed the following steps (as listed in a faq on how to get true type
> fonts to work) and now my X11 server won't start.
> 
> 1. I copied the *.ttf files from my windows partition to the linux
> partition directory /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
> 2. I ran ttmkdir to verify the .ttf files and deleted the ones that gave
> errors
> 3. I ran ttmkdir -o fonts.scale
> 4. I made a symbolic link ln -s fonts.scale fonts.dir
> 5. I ran chkfontpath --add /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
> 
> After that xfs would not stop correctly.
> 
> To try to fix it I ran chkfontpath --remove /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF
> but everytime I try that I just get a core dump. It must have worked when
> I did chkfontpath --add though, because chkfontpath --list shows the
> directory /usr/share/fonts/default/TTF.

You can do --remove by editing the text file that chkfontpath
edits... read man chkfontpath.
Perhaps you have a bad font... try just doing one font next time.  If
that works, add a few more.
Here's another faq on the subject:
  http://www.kegel.com/linux/tt.html
- Dan
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(The above is my opinion alone, and not that of my employer)