Re: Unstable X can't find font "fixed" dies immediately.

[Eric Van Buggenhaut <eric@andago.com>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:14:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:20:11PM +0200, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 06:31:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:56:17PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > > Subject says it all really.  Just upgraded to latest X in sid.
> > > > All packages present, including xfs but fonts cant be found
> > > > so X dies immediately. Any advice welcome!
> > > 
> > > I'm getting some reports of this, but it's not affecting everyone.
> > > 
> > > I think perhaps one of the other font package maintainers screwed
> > > something up.
> > > 
> > > Please mail this list with the output of:
> > > 
> > > COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep -i font
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> You may have crap in the alias files, especially if you didn't *purge*
> the biznet font packages.
> 
> cat /etc/X11/fonts/misc/*.alias

The biznet fonts haven't ever been installed on this box.

> 
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