On my amd64 machine, x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 fails to start with no media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed. After installing media-fonts/font-misc-misc there are no problems. I think that this is no duplicate to bug 224953 since x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 has no dependencie to media-fonts/font-misc-misc at all (as far as I can see) The last two lines in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log are: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' So, adding media-fonts/font-misc-misc to the deps in x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 should fix this one. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 without media-fonts/font-misc-misc beeing installed 2. Start the x-server via the xdm init script 3. Drink some Tea. Actual Results: xorg-server doesn't start Expected Results: xorg-server should start
Please attach your Xorg.0.log and the output of "emerge libXfont -pv". Thanks
Created attachment 191050 [details] Xorg.0.log without media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed
Created attachment 191051 [details] Output of "emerge libXfont -pv" without media-fonts/font-misc-misc installed
An ugly version of the "fixed" font should be built into libXfont and thus used by the server (that's the "built-ins" line in your log's FontPath entry). Somehow, the server is not picking it up... Let's see, could you attach the output of "ldd /usr/bin/Xorg" and the output of "readelf -a /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1" ? Thanks
Created attachment 191069 [details] Output of "ldd /usr/bin/Xorg"
Created attachment 191071 [details] Output of "readelf -a /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1" Here you go :-)
Hum, just out of curiosity since I'm running out of options, could you try the following : FEATURES="keeptemp" emerge -1 --nodeps libXfont xorg-server And attach both build.log files here? Thanks
Created attachment 191077 [details] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5 build.log
Created attachment 191079 [details] x11-libs/libXfont-1.3.4 build.log Voila.
Btw, did the rebuild help in any way? Thanks
No, it didn't By the way, thx for taking care of this :-)
I've checked on many stable and unstable boxes and this particular Xorg/libXfont feature works perfectly fine on all of them. I can't understand why this is happening. The only thing that comes to mind is a broken toolchain (gcc, binutils, ...) Sorry, I'm out of ideas here.