Problem with some font directories

[Dori]

FYI in case someone else runs into the same situation, it was the lack
of read permission on these two files:/etc/fonts/Fontmap
/etc/fonts/local.conf

The error messages remain in the log, but I can now see unicode fonts.

Dori

On 9/17/05, Dori <slowpoke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I have this problem with my font directories that's preventing me
> from using Unicode-encoded web-sites. The short is that I am getting these
> messages in the log:
>
>  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing
> from list!
>  Could not init font path element
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from list!
>  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing
> from list!
>  Could not init font path element /usr/local/share/fonts, removing from
> list!
>  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts, removing from
> list!
>
>  X itself comes up fine otherwise. I've regenerated fonts.dir files, and the
> permissions I think are OK for those dirs, e.g.:
>
>  dori at lexx:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts$ ls -l
>  total 190
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 79760 2004-10-17 14:59 100dpi/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 79760 2004-10-17 14:59 75dpi/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   144 2005-09-15 20:50 CID/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   400 2005-09-15 20:50 Speedo/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   896 2004-10-17 15:00 TTF/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  2008 2004-10-17 15:00 Type1/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  2848 2004-10-17 14:59 cyrillic/
>  drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  1272 2004-10-17 14:59 encodings/
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root root   190 2005-09-15 20:58 fonts.cache-1
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root root     2 2005-09-15 20:50 fonts.dir
>  -rw-r--r--  1 root root     2 2005-09-15 20:50 fonts.scale
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   144 2005-09-15 20:45 local/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 17064 2004-10-17 15:00 misc/
>  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   600 2004-10-17 14:59 util/
>
>  For full Xorg.0.log file see: http://pastebin.com/366504
>  and for Xorg.conf see: http://pastebin.com/366505
>
>  I'd appreciate any help.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Dori
>