Re: [hylafax-users] Warning: Font metric information files were not found!

[Mark Gillingham <markgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 03:37 AM, Giulio Orsero wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:20:18 -0600, Mark Gillingham
> <markgill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to start fresh on a Debian Woody (3) Linux box. I'm getting
> > warnings after installing 4.1.8 from source. Previously I removed  
> > 4.1.1
> > binary.
> >
> > At first the directory /usr/share/ghostscript/common does not exist. I
> > uninstalled gs binary and reinstalled it. That appeared to help.
> >
> > I did faxsetup and faxmodem again to make sure the 4.1.8 settings were
> > in place.
>
> Look into the hyla.conf file (you installed from source, I don't  
> remember
> the path, "locate hyla.conf").
>
> See the font path and check that at least one of the dirs actually  
> exists
> and contains stuff.

I removed all traces of hylafax from the fresh Woody box and then  
installed hylafax 4.1.8 from source. At that point there was no  
/etc/hylafax dir. When I ran faxsetup (source install puts executables  
in /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin) I get the folliwing warnings  
about ghostscript. I don't have vgetty or egetty installed, thus the  
warnings.

I have gs files in /var/lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts and  
/usr/share/gs/6.53.

Even after I ran faxsetup  /etc/hylafax does not exist. After doing  
updatedb, locate does not find hyla.conf. Should I step back to a  
previous version? Should I try to dd the files from my RH7.3 box?

--- faxsetup information follows:
markgill@debian:~$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/faxsetup

Setup program for HylaFAX (tm) 4.1.8.

Created for i586-pc-linux-gnu on Tue Dec 23 11:28:09 CST 2003.

Reading cached parameters from /var/spool/hylafax/etc/setup.cache.

Checking system for proper client configuration.
Checking system for proper server configuration.


Warning: /bin/vgetty does not exist or is not an executable program!

The file:

    /bin/vgetty

does not exist or this file is not an executable program.  The
HylaFAX software optionally uses this program and the fact that
it does not exist on the system is not a fatal error.  If the
program resides in a different location and you do not want to
install a symbolic link for /bin/vgetty that points to your program
then you must reconfigure and rebuild HylaFAX from source code.


Warning: /bin/egetty does not exist or is not an executable program!

The file:

    /bin/egetty

does not exist or this file is not an executable program.  The
HylaFAX software optionally uses this program and the fact that
it does not exist on the system is not a fatal error.  If the
program resides in a different location and you do not want to
install a symbolic link for /bin/egetty that points to your program
then you must reconfigure and rebuild HylaFAX from source code.


Warning: /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/common does not exist or is not a  
directory!

The directory /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/common does not exist or this  
file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.



Warning: /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/6.53 does not exist or is not a  
directory!

The directory /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/6.53 does not exist or this  
file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.



Warning: /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a  
directory!

The directory /usr/local/lib/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or this  
file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.



Warning: /usr/local/share/ghostscript/common does not exist or is not a  
directory!

The directory /usr/local/share/ghostscript/common does not exist or  
this file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.



Warning: /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.53 does not exist or is not a  
directory!

The directory /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.53 does not exist or this  
file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.



Warning: /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or is not a  
directory!

The directory /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts does not exist or this  
file is not a directory.
This is the directory where the HylaFAX client applications expect to
locate font metric information to use in formatting ASCII text for
submission as facsimile.  Without this information HylaFAX may generate
illegible facsimile from ASCII text.



Warning: Font metric information files were not found!

The font metric information file for the Courier font was not found in
the  
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/common:/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/6.53:/usr/ 
local/lib/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/local/share/ghostscript/common:/usr/ 
local/share/ghostscript/6.53:/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts:/var/ 
lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts:/usr/share/ghostscript/common:/usr/share/gs/ 
6.53 path.  This means that client HylaFAX applications
that use this information to format ASCII text for submission as fax  
will
use incorrect information and generate potentially illegible facsimile.

If font metric information is present on your system in a directory  
other
than  
/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/common:/usr/local/lib/ghostscript/6.53:/usr/ 
local/lib/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/local/share/ghostscript/common:/usr/ 
local/share/ghostscript/6.53:/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts:/var/ 
lib/defoma/gs.d/dirs/fonts:/usr/share/ghostscript/common:/usr/share/gs/ 
6.53 then you can setup a symbolic link to the appropriate
directory or you can specify the appropriate pathname in the  
configuration
file /usr/local/lib/fax/hyla.conf with a line of the form:

FontPath:       someplace_unexpected

If you do not have the font metric information files loaded on your  
system
system you can obtain them by public FTP from the place where you  
obtained
the HylaFAX software or from the master FTP site at ftp.sgi.com.

Make /var/spool/hylafax/bin/ps2fax a link to  
/var/spool/hylafax/bin/ps2fax.gs.


Make /var/spool/hylafax/bin/pdf2fax a link to  
/var/spool/hylafax/bin/pdf2fax.gs.

Update /var/spool/hylafax/status/any.info.

        HylaFAX configuration parameters are:

        [1] Init script starts faxq:            yes
        [2] Init script starts hfaxd            yes
        [3] Start old protocol:                 no
        [4] Start paging protocol:              no
Are these ok [yes]?


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