Re: xserver-sun* breakage.

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:05:45PM -0700, Paul Vojta wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 17:45:09 -0400, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 04:16:11PM -0700, Paul Vojta wrote:
> > > I too have had problems, and have now gone back to the old version.
> > > 
> > > With xserver-xsun_3.3.4-1 I'd just get a white screen.  Upon switching
> > > my vc, I'd see that it printed some error message and the server quit.
> > > 
> > > Hardware:  Sun Sparc 5 (sparc32), cg3 or cg6 (I forget which).
> > 
> > Any chance I could get the error message?
> 
> Here is the server output:
> 
> >
> > (using VT number 7)
> >
> > PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file  Roman_M
> > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> The PEX line (and the line above it) appear also under 3.3.3.1.

Try installing the package xfonts-pex.

Branden, isn't the X upgrade supposed to handle depending on the correct
fonts? What is it the actually is using the PEX fonts?

Ben