[ubuntu-in] [RESOLVED] [ILUG-BOM] [CROSS-POST]: Cursor theme selection disables GUI

[Roshan]

--- 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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