Re: Xsun has me beat

[Mario Lombardo <mario@alienscience.com>]

 That's what I thought.  In Potato, I got this every time, but in 
reading /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common under the [How do I get the 
Xserver to find the "fixed" font?] section it states:

"If the X server refuses to start, complaining that it cannot find the 
'fixed' font, then one (or more) of the following is likely true:" (then 
it goes on about causes)

This is contradictory of what I'm hearing on this thread.  What else, 
logs, output, or otherwise, can I give you?  Please tell me where to get 
it.  I'm not terribly familiar with Debian's filesystem hierarchy.

Mario


Ben Collins wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 12:00:30PM -0500, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
> > I purged the xfonts-pex and reinstalled.  Same thing happened.
> >
> > In /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> > update-fonts-alias .
> > update-fonts-dir .
> > update-fonts-scale .
> >
> > Tried startx again.  Still, I get the same thing.  Where else can I 
> > look?  Where is this information coming from that would originate such 
> > an error?
>
> I have a feeling that the fonts are the cause of the failure. They
> should be non-fatal. Can you check the rest of the output (perhaps mouse
> errors)?