On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:57:47PM +0100, Nick Phillips 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. > > Can easily happen during upgrades that not everyone selects the same "new" > package in the first place, not everyone uses the same frontend (dselect > puts more pressure on you than apt to install recommended packages)... Actually, it appears to be due to a bug in the biznet font packages... > I got it upgrading from potato to woody; xfonts-base was not installed. > > apt-get install xfonts-base fixed it. > > Maybe there's a missing dependency somewhere? You didn't have xfonts-base installed in the first place? How were you starting X on this potato system? Where was your remote font server? Did you stop running it when you upgraded to woody? No, there's not a missing dependency anywhere. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux | that reading it will cause an branden@debian.org | aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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