Wrong font aliaseds (Was: Sid Upgrade: could not open default font 'fixed')

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 04:26:09PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed';

Ok, I only have ssh access right now, but this is interesting.  Seems 
the Sid update created 8859-15 font aliases for me, but I don't have fonts 
to match.  If I run update-fonts-alias it creates a fonts.alias file 
with 8859-15 encodings.  I'm LANG=en_US so I should have 8859-1.

My /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias file is listing 
8859-15 aliases which don't map to any font files I have.

On my working laptop /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias lists 8859-1 
fonts.

Is xfonts-base broken???

On the broken machine: xfonts-base     4.3.0-5

$ grep ^fixed /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15

$  grep misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir  | wc -l
0


On this working Sid laptop:   xfonts-base     4.3.0-2

$ grep ^fixed /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias                   
fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

$ grep misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1$ /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir 
6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1




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Bill Moseley
moseley@hank.org