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[iMav]

i think i will do are-install with the dvd given by digit but guys tellme how do i restore my apps using aptoncd iv come across numerous posts where ppl havnt been able to restore their apps

 

[praka123]

make a backup of ur /var/cache/apt/archives for later use.
OR
make a remastered copy.
*www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-linux-mint-livecd-with-remastersys

 

[iMav]

ok i fugged up big time

i came across a post on ubuntu forums where people complained of the same problem i had of firefox and gutsy it seemed that they were facing this problem because of msstcorefont and they said that un-installing the fonts would rectify the problem so i went ahead and un-installed the fonts ab sab gaya i come to the login screen it flashes and then i get a black screen with a stop notice but i cant read anything as it has rectangles i click on what i assume is OK but same thing

 

[praka123]

^
now,what?
u have to boot livecd,mount ur ubuntu partition in hdd,chroot,install corefonts and any other fonts u messed up,running dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig fontconfig-config!enjoy!!!

 

[gary4gar]

i predict iMav will also give up linux soon, much like gx

 

[iMav]

i predict iMav will also give up linux soon, much like gx

na he had hard disk issues .... i still need more reasons to love my windows

coming to the topic at hand jeshtha could u tell me what commands i need to punch to change the root to my hard disk partition

 

[praka123]

^can u cop up with it?then :
run ubuntu livecd,mount ur ubuntu hdd / partition.open terminal:

sudo mount /dev/sdax  /mnt

where sdax is ur / partition of ubuntu hdd.
then:
then go to :

cd  /mnt/home/urname/

remove .fonts directory(incase u have fonts in this directory,backup those fonts)

rm -r /mnt/urname/.fonts/

also remove,

rm -r /mnt/urname/.gconf/

Now,

chroot /mnt  /bin/bash

and:

mount /proc

now make sure u have internet ON on ur livecd!

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts xfonts-100dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xfonts-75dpi xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils  --reinstall

now run below command:

sudo dpk-reconfigure fontconfig-config

^select the appropriate one.if u have LCD monitor,select Subpixel rendering.
then reboot and try booting ubuntu from hdd.try ur luck!.if this fails,the next solution rather than searching for every "." files is to remove .gnome2 directory also.

 

[iMav]

ah thanks a lot will do it tonight ... thank u

ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/home/manan$ chroot /mnt  /bin/bash
chroot: cannot change root directory to /mnt: Operation not permitted

im getting this and it did not find a fonts directory

 

[praka123]

prepend "sudo" so,

sudo chroot /dev/sdax /mnt/

 

[gary4gar]

ah thanks a lot will do it tonight ... thank u

ubuntu@ubuntu:/mnt/home/manan$ chroot /mnt  /bin/bash
chroot: cannot change root directory to /mnt: Operation not permitted

im getting this and it did not find a fonts directory

see whenever you get a error like "Operation not permitted" or "Permission denied" use sudo in front of the command

 

[iMav]

ok done i got ubuntu back into working condition though had a quite a few hiccups in the way ... however ff fonts are still screwed man this is really annoying .... how do u guys get this fixed man .... what the hell it took 1 hour to get things to normal lost all customization re-did em and ff fonts are still the same aarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

hey guys any ideas on why this:

manan@manan-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
Cleaning up font configuration of fontconfig...
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Cleaning up category type1..
Updating font configuration of fontconfig...
Cleaning up category cid..
Cleaning up category truetype..
Cleaning up category type1..
Updating category type1..
Updating category truetype..
Updating category cid..
Regenerating fonts cache... failed.
See /var/log/fontconfig.log for more information.
done.

/usr/share/fonts: caching, 0 fonts, 3 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11: caching, 0 fonts, 6 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: failed to write cache
caching, 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: failed to write cache
caching, 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: failed to write cache
caching, 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: failed to write cache
caching, 55 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: /usr/share/fonts/X11/util: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: /usr/share/fonts/truetype: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 16 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/custom: caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont: caching, 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi: caching, 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts: failed to write cache
caching, 60 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/thai: caching, 27 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-arabeyes: caching, 39 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera: caching, 10 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu: caching, 21 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-gentium: caching, 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-indic-fonts-core: caching, 11 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-lao: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-malayalam-fonts: caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-mgopen: caching, 16 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts: caching, 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1: caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts: caching, 35 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/X11/fonts: skipping, no such directory
/usr/local/share/fonts: caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d: caching, 0 fonts, 24 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/A: caching, 16 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/B: caching, 12 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/C: caching, 11 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D: caching, 25 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/E: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/F: caching, 13 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/G: caching, 14 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/H: caching, 3 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/I: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/J: caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/K: caching, 4 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/L: caching, 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/M: caching, 21 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/N: caching, 25 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/O: caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/P: caching, 3 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/R: caching, 3 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/S: caching, 5 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/T: caching, 24 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/U: caching, 13 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/V: caching, 5 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/W: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/m: caching, 2 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/u: caching, 1 fonts, 0 dirs
/var/cache/fontconfig: cleaning cache directory
fc-cache: failed

also chk this out in this screenshot look at the color our mod shantanu is in ... the green is something else:

*img219.imageshack.us/img219/7415/screenshot1py2.th.png

 

[praka123]

did u :

sudo dpkg-reconfigure [b]fontconfig-config[/b]

and

 sudo fc-cache -fv

 

[iMav]

yes i did do the first command however i tried the second and still everything is failing

 

[praka123]

now i can imagine only:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure defoma

and

sudo apt-get install --reinstall defoma fontconfig fontconfig-config

where u messed?
then try

sudo fc-cache -fv

also restart system and boot into ubuntu again.

 

[Faun]

going thru hardships, nice try iMav, i appreciate that

 

[iMav]

its still saying the same error failed to write to cache failed failed failed wtf .... get that avatar of urs to stop dancing its increasing the frustration levels drastically one here everything is failing and then this avatar of urs dancing

hardships ... ya get those teeth in

 

[Faun]

Try this one if the problem is firefox specific (searched a while now and got this).

Inf firefox goto options>content>fonts
uncheck the checkbox having label "allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"

see if it helps

 

[iMav]

that helps but the problem is then all pages have the system fonts and not the 1 the website has if u know what i mean

 

[Faun]

that helps but the problem is then all pages have the system fonts and not the 1 the website has if u know what i mean

yeah thats a workaround until the sure fix

 

[praka123]

/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi: failed to write cache
caching, 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi: failed to write cache
caching, 358 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1: failed to write cache
caching, 8 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 1 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc: failed to write cache
caching, 55 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/X11/util: /usr/share/fonts/X11/util: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 0 dirs
/usr/share/fonts/truetype: /usr/share/fonts/truetype: failed to write cache
caching, 0 fonts, 16 dirs

^^^this shows some installation steps are not finished or pending.try
"sudo apt-get install -f" ,"dpkg --configure --pending"
and make sure ur /etc/hostname file contains 127.0.0.1 <hostnam> there.