Ubuntu – Missing fonts in Xvfb

I've installed Ubuntu 12.04.3 64-bit as a guest under VMplayer running on my Win7 host.

After Ubuntu installs, I launch and open a terminal.

I then enter the following:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
sudo apt-get install xvfb
sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-scalable xfonts-cyrillic

When I launch xvfb, I get the following error:

“[dix] Could not init font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType, removing from list!”

"x-ttcidfont-conf" should have been installed with "wine" as I got the same EULA when I install manually. However, it never gets recognized and when I check font folders, they're empty.

I've tried these steps as well:

1. Alternate attempt 1:

   • sudo apt-get -y install x-ttcidfont-conf cabextract ttf-mscorefonts-installer
   • sudo dpkg-reconfigure x-ttcidfont-conf

2. Alternate attempt 2:

   • Reset Ubuntu
   • At login screen: Press CtrlAltF1
   • Login
   • kill x server: sudo service lightdm stop
   • generate new xorg.conf file: sudo X -configure
     • This will create a 'xorg.conf.new' file in your current dir
   • return to GUI: sudo start lightdm
   • Login through UI
   • Open & edit xorg.conf.new and add the following two lines:

     FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"

     FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"

   • Save & exit
   • Logout of UI
   • At login screen: Press CtrlAltF1
   • Login
   • kill x server: sudo service lightdm stop
   • rename and move: sudo mv xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
   • return to GUI: sudo start lightdm

I fully admit I'm a linux/ubuntu/xvfb noob…but I am good at Google searches and nothing seems to work.

What am I missing?

I've tried:

sudo apt-get -y install x-ttcidfont-conf
[sudo] password for <user>:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
x-ttcidfont-conf is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not - upgraded.

and still get the same error message.

I've also tried:

1. sudo apt-get upgrade
2. Restarted ubuntu
3. retried

Get same results. 🙁

There is an in-house shell script that launches Xvfb followed by an application and apparently just hangs as a result. The first line in the shell script is:

Xvfb :2 &

And simply executing that command outside of the shell script causes the same error.

I've read in one of the many pages to help resolve this that I need an xorg.conf in a folder to point to font folders. I tried to create this and for the other fonts such as xfont-100dpi, xfont-75dpi, etc. there is content in the folders. Why am I not able to get any content in the equivalent font folder for x-ttcidfont-conf TrueType font?