Re: could not open default font 'fixed'

To: sam th <sam@uchicago.edu>
Cc: debian-x@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: could not open default font 'fixed'
From: Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:04:47 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] 20001017160447.A19262@vitelus.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0010060556050.18657-101000@bur-jud-175-135.rh.uchicago.edu>; from sam@uchicago.edu on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 06:04:29AM -0500
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.21.0010060556050.18657-101000@bur-jud-175-135.rh.uchicago.edu>

I've just experienced this bug and found the cause on my system.

mkfontdir was not installed, so the fonts.alias file was incorrect.

I suppose that mkfontdir should be moved from xutils to xfonts-base,
or xfonts-base should depend on xutils.

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