I've been running a Debian unstable box for a couple of years, but only today have I tried to start the X server. I find that `startx` is failing with the following message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log could not open default cursor font 'cursor'; I've been googling around and it seems that this may or may not be the actual problem. Nonetheless, here's the contents of /usr/lib/X11/fonts: $ ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/ 100dpi 75dpi Speedo TrueType Type1 encodings fonts.cache-1 misc util $ ls -l /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*cursor* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5094 Jun 1 06:57 /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-base -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1356 Jun 1 06:57 /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/olcursor.pcf.gz If X was otherwise correctly set up, would this olcursor.pcf.gz be used as "cursor font 'cursor'"? >From the log file, my font path is set to "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" Attached are /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log. It looks to me like X is happy up to the point when it looks for the cursor font and then it just falls over. Am I reading the log file correctly? I wonder if anybody can put me on the right track. Regards, Angus
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