Re: X11 broken by weekend upgrades? ("can't find default font")

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On  8 Nov, A.J. Rossini wrote about "X11 broken by weekend upgrades?  ("can't find default font")"
> 
> 
> I've got a nasty case of broken X configuration, due to a recent
> upgrade over the weekend ("Can't find default font, Fixed").  I might
> added a number of xfonts (xfont-jmk? and some Chinese, since I'm
> learning) and things aren't working.
> 
> Any thoughts?  
> 
> Please cc me directly; this is the first time since 1990 that I've
> broken an X configuration this badly and the usual things havn't
> solved the problem!
> 

Have you tried restarting the font server?  I upgraded to potato over
the weekend and when X restarted it complained of the same thing.  A
simple: '/etc/init.d/xfs restart;/etc/init.d/xfstt restart' fixed it.

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