unifont-bin is not able to find /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: unifont

 I tried installing unifont and unifont-bin 1:1.0-4ubuntu1 on gutsy

The same error while installing & uninstalling unifont

Setting up unifont (1:1.0-4ubuntu1) ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory

This is while installing

The same error while purging or uninstalling unifont

Removing unifont ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
Purging configuration files for unifont ...
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
Removing unifont-bin ...

Please look into it.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

An update. I went to /usr/lib/X11 , there is no fonts sub-directory, should there be one by default or its inability of the installer to create the two sub-directories which is giving the issue.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

A little bit more update I did this :-

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ dpkg -L unifont
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/share/fonts/X11
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/unifont
/usr/share/doc/unifont/Readme.gz
/usr/share/doc/unifont/copyright
/usr/share/doc/unifont/changelog.Debian.gz

Now while there is an archive in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz & there are other font archives files there is still nothing of anything in /usr/lib/X11/

[Paul Hardy (unifoundry)]

This is not a bug in the unifont-bin package per se. It is a bug in the invoked update-fonts-dir shell script. I ran into this same problem while trying to package unifont for the Etch release of Debian. I'll post a reply from the point of view of Etch. I or someone else can follow up later with Ubuntu versions later.

The update-fonts-dir version in Etch will always print a warning if /usr/lib/X11/fonts doesn't exist.

The update-fonts-dir man page is also out of date. It gives two options for telling update-fonts-dir that you're installing X11R7 fonts, which go in /usr/share/fonts/X11 (and therefore update-fonts-dir shouldn't be looking in /usr/lib/X11/fonts). Those options are null operations. The update-fonts-dir script ignores those command-line options, then always looks in /usr/share/fonts/X11 *and* in /usr/lib/X11/fonts.

I think this bug should probably be closed for unifont-bin, and a new one opened for update-fonts-dir if it doesn't exist already, and if it hasn't been fixed in its latest Ubuntu version.

Paul Hardy
GPG Key ID: E6E6E390

[Paul Hardy (unifoundry)]

Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) contains a version of update-fonts-dir that was modified 2007-11-13. That version no longer exhibits this bug. For example,

     /usr/sbin/update-fonts-dir misc

will only look in /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc now, and no longer in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc. Therefore this bug can be closed.

Paul Hardy
GPG Key ID: E6E6E390

[Hew (hew)]

Closing this bug based on the above comment. Thanks for your info.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Thanks Paul, I've confirmed that the unifont package installs successfully on 8.04. Marking this as a duplicate of bug 185321, as that covers the issue in the update-fonts-dir script in the xfonts-utils package.