[ubuntu-in] Cursor theme selection disables GUI

[shirish]

> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:52:04 +0100 (BST)
> From: Roshan <d_rosh2001 at yahoo.co.in>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] [RESOLVED] [ILUG-BOM] [CROSS-POST]: Cursor
>         theme   selection disables GUI
> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers at mm.glug-bom.org>,
>         Ubuntu India List <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Message-ID: <481814.52548.qm at web8704.mail.in.yahoo.com>
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>
> --- Roshan wrote:
> > I was trying out cursor themes in Kubuntu and
> > changed
> > it to a theme that was called "X Cursor themes" or
> > so.
> > I selected it and logged out to set the current
> > cursor
> > theme as "X cursor theme". However, the file seems
> > to
> > be missing and Kubuntu disables starting X because,
> > it
> > is unable to find the file.
>
> This was my first step. I guess, I also installed
> something called as "artwiz-cursor".
>
> The error message thrown by X when issued a startx on
> TTY was
>
> Fatal Error 104:
> could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
> (...)
>
> > I'm clueless about which file it (cursor) has
> > manipulated that instructs it to load the cursor
> > when
> > it has to start the GUI.
>
> Found that it manipulated two files. One it renamed a
> file in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc named cursor.pcf.gz to
> cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz and subsequently the fonts.dir
> file in the same directory by modifying the entry on a
> line containing
> cursor.pcf.gz cursor
> to
> cursor.pcf.gz -artwiz cursor
>
> Solution:
>
> I renamed the file and changed the entry in fonts.dir
> which solved the problem.
>
> I'm not the first one to have this sort of a problem.
> A few others also had same issues.
>
> A bug was filed for Breezy in Launchpad, Debian Sarge
> also has the same bug. (it is a so-called diversion
> bug).
>
> Thanks to msn from #l-i who spent time trying to
> resolve this issue. One fellow with Debian took 1.5
> hours to solve it (I have the text with me, the link
> is lost :( ) and I took nearly four hours (4) to find
> the solution. :(
>
>
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Hi Roshan,
        You should have posted the launchpad bug no. also. Would have
made it easier in 2 ways, one to subscribe to it & see if something
has to be done within the ubuntu package (connect with the ubuntu
maintainer) and secondly or/if something needs to be done upstream.
Also have you put the workaround there in the bug-report.

Regards,
-- 
          Shirish Agarwal
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