Bogus warning message - /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist

[PaulSchulz]

Binary package hint: xfonts-base

dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-base

I get the following warning..
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warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
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This is on a newly upgraded edgy, (i386 and powerpc) with
xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-3ubuntu1

If I create the directory beforehand, I get the same error, and the directory is removed (only one warning is issued though).
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mkdir -p /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-base
ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts
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total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-04 18:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2006-11-04 18:15 ..

[PaulSchulz (paulschulz)]

Both machines were upgraded from dapper.

[Florin POP (florin-pop)]

I have the same issue, but with xfonts-base 1.0.0-4

stan@ubuntu:~$ dpkg -l | grep xfonts-base
ii xfonts-base 1.0.0-4 standard fonts for X

stan@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-base
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory

stan@ubuntu:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:29 ..

stan@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc

stan@ubuntu:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts/
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:46 misc

stan@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-base
warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory

stan@ubuntu:~$ ls -al /usr/lib/X11/fonts/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-07-09 15:29 ..

when I try to configure xfonts-base I get the 2 warnings. If I check that folder indeed it doesn't exist. If I manually create it, I still get one warning and even more the misc folder is deleted.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,
Florin

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

I have tried this on two machines running Hardy, one that was upgraded from Gutsy and one that was installed from scratch.
xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5
I do not get this error on either of them.

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

Changing to Fix Released as I do not get this on either of two Hardy machines. Feel free to change to Confirmed if this bug is actually still present.

[Fyk (stephane-benchimol)]

Same bug with xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-4
I haven't find any solution ....

[Fyk (stephane-benchimol)]

I've solved the problem by manually typing :

# ln -s /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc

And then resintalling the package.

(Too many places where fonts could be ?)

Hope this will help ...