Re: Unstable X can't find font "fixed" dies immediately.

[Nick Phillips <nwp@lemon-computing.com>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:45:39AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:

> > 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?

I wasn't; the machine has a Geforce 2 MX, so it only worked with the VGA16
X server with xfree86 3.x... however, that did appear to work as far as
XF86Setup went, IIRC.

> No, there's not a missing dependency anywhere.

Then howcome apt didn't complain about unmet dependencies? Almost all the
X stuff was loaded, and X tried to start but failed to find "fixed",
so surely something in there should have depended on xfonts-base (or an
alternative)?

The upgrade was messy, I grant you, but I thought apt usually complains
every time you try to use it if there are unmet dependencies anywhere on
the system.

Oh, while I'm here, & just to be different, thanks for doing a bloody good
job of a bloody awkward set of packages (and sometimes a bloody awkward set
of users, too).


Cheers,


Nick
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