[shadesofgray:/private/tmp] paul% ./xprint diag ##### Diag start Fri May 19 03:28:35 PDT 2006. ## General info start. PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" TZ="" LANG="" uname -a="Darwin shadesofgray 6.8 Darwin Kernel Version 6.8: Wed Sep 10 15:20:55 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.49.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc" uname -s="Darwin" uname -p="powerpc" uname: illegal option -- i usage: uname [-amnprsv] uname -i="" uname -m="Power Macintosh" has /etc/SuSE-release ... no has /etc/redhat-release ... no has /etc/debian_version ... no ps: illegal option -- f usage: ps [-aChjlmMrSTuvwx] [-O|o fmt] [-p pid] [-t tty] [-U user] [-N system] [-W swap] ps [-L] how many Xprt servers are running ... 0 ## General info end. ## Testing font paths start. #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" ... #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" ... #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" ... /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.dir has cursor font. /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.dir has fixed font. /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.alias has cursor font. /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc//fonts.alias has fixed font. #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" ... #### Testing "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" ... ## Testing font paths end. ##### Diag End Fri May 19 03:28:48 PDT 2006. [shadesofgray:/private/tmp] paul% ./xprint start ./xprint: Old server registry found, cleaning-up... Stopping Xprint servers: Xprt. Starting Xprint servers: Xprt. _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root sh: nawk: command not found Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Xprint server pid=1604 done, exitcode=0. also, reading the faq on xprint.mozdev.org (http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html#id2879415 & http://xprint.mozdev.org/docs/Xprint_FAQ.html#id2879513) checked for a fixed font [shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# pwd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc [shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# grep ^fixed fonts.alias fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 [shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# grep misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 fonts.dir 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-10 6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-11 6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-13 6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-14 6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-16 [shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# ls -l 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz 6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4637 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4551 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4409 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4689 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4502 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4614 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4547 Apr 26 12:35 6x13-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz [shadesofgray:X11/fonts/misc] root# the xserver gives me no trouble with an 'xterm -fn fixed' i've regenerated the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files over and over again, and it still refuses to start
i guess this is a problem with Xprt being linked with a dynamic libXfont as opposed to a static one http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00292.html that seems to be related
Hi, I don't know whether the problem has been solved yet. I found same X-Win can not start problem these days. After some trace, I found the problem is due to fontdir.c in libXfont can not handle fonts.dir properly, if it is in DOS (LF/CR) format. Which means, when you install XWin font componets by setup.exe, if select "DOS / text" mode in "Default Text File Type" setting, it will cause the problem. Because the fonts.dir in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, which is genertaed by post shell, will be the LF/CR format.
Closing WONTFIX because nobody cares about Xprint. Reopen if you plan to address this bug.
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