Ubuntu
xorg-server package

Xorg:could not open default cursor font

Bug #84024 reported by Till
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xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Since I don't reboot often I'm not 100% positive as to what caused this bug... I tried reinstalling and reconfiguring (via dpkg) xserver-xorg xfonts-base. The xserver fails to launch and I can track this down to:

Fatal server error:
could not open default cursor font 'cursor'

in /var/log/Xorg.0.conf

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Till (till-varoquaux) wrote :

Changed the affected package. How can I precise the distribution (feisty)?

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Till (till-varoquaux) wrote :

Ok it's more or less fixed although the bug should stay opened:

/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.dir contained this ligne:
cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz cursor
By comparing it to my other machine I realized that renaming the file cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz to cursor.pcf.gz and modifying the fonts.dir file adequately resolved the issue.
This is a hack and I don't really understand where the problem came from. I'm sure this problem does not come from my tampering with system files because I try avoiding such messing around as much as possible. I beleive gcursor might be the culprit here...

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

The original bug is fixed, since the server always uses the right font path for corefonts.

Changed in xorg:
status: New → Fix Released
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