Re: ipkg upgrade to v.5?

> Sender: familiar-admin_at_handhelds.org
> From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz_at_responsible.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 20:08:38 -0700
> To: familiar_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: [Familiar] ipkg upgrade to v.5?
> -----
> Well, I just did an ipkg upgrade, and ended up with a lot of things getting
> upgraded that were ok this morning :) Looks like some of this was marked .5.
>
> Everything is running just fine, with one problem. The new /etc/init.d/x
> fails and only gives me the basic X with no wm. It complains four times that
> it can't find the 100dpi fonts in the process.

Could you please capture the output of the console on boot and mail it to me?

The X server complains about 100dpi fonts only because the directory does
not exist, which doesn't matter, anyway. It should not have anything
to do with you not getting a window manager.

> I don't see those fonts in
> the ipkg list, and the error does not go away if I change the line to be:
>
> Xipaq -screen 240x320_at_270 -dpi 75 &
>
> Any suggestions? I've changed back the old /etc/init.d/x and that fixes
> everything for now.
>

This smells like the new window manager pointer (since we let you run
either ion or blackbox) isn't getting created properly; the old /etc/init.d/x
has the window manager name hardwired in the startup script, and the
new one uses an abstract name, which the debian alternatives mechanism is
supposed to be setting properly to whatever window manager you're using.

A couple other questions: Has ion been installed? Has GTK-menu
been installed? Is blackbox present (which you were using before).
                                   - Jim
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 18:30:26 EDT