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tightvnc package

  1. Bug #269573
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 269573

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Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises) wrote :

Actually, having xbase-fonts installed doesn't help. Trying repeatedly to reinstall it doens't help. It probably also doesn't help that, when xbase-fonts is installed, dpkg -L xbase-fonts lists files that aren't there.

rachel@twilight:~$ tightvncserver -nolisten tcp :1
Couldn't start Xtightvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the tightvncserver script.
Couldn't start Xtightvnc process.

18/11/14 14:05:34 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.10
18/11/14 14:05:34 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 TightVNC Group
18/11/14 14:05:34 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
18/11/14 14:05:34 All Rights Reserved.
18/11/14 14:05:34 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
18/11/14 14:05:34 Desktop name 'X' (twilight:1)
18/11/14 14:05:34 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
18/11/14 14:05:34 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/' not found - ignoring

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
18/11/14 14:05:35 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.10
18/11/14 14:05:35 Copyright (C) 2000-2009 TightVNC Group
18/11/14 14:05:35 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
18/11/14 14:05:35 All Rights Reserved.
18/11/14 14:05:35 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
18/11/14 14:05:35 Desktop name 'X' (twilight:1)
18/11/14 14:05:35 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
18/11/14 14:05:35 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/Speedo/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/' not found - ignoring
Font directory '/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/' not found - ignoring

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

rachel@twilight:~$ apt-cache policy xfonts-base
xfonts-base:
  Installed: 1:1.0.3
  Candidate: 1:1.0.3
  Version table:
 *** 1:1.0.3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
rachel@twilight:~$ dpkg -L xfonts-base | tail -1
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
rachel@twilight:~$ ls -l /etc/x11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
ls: cannot access /etc/x11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias: No such file or directory

what a mess.

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