re: Re: fatal server error!
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
To: rod peters <petersr@uniserve.com>
Cc: debian <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: fatal server error!
>X was split up into more packages, which don't get installed during an
>upgrade (this is going to be fixed before the official release of slink.)
>
>From changelog.Debian.gz:
>
>* the Great Reorganization -- changes too numerous to list here, but almost
> every maintainer and build script was rewritten from scratch; xfree86
is
> now split into 47 binary packages; there should be little difference
> visible to the user aside from this, but maintainers of packages that
use
> X will need to be aware in particular of changes in window-manager
> registration and X resource handling; information is available in
xbase's
> README.Debian
>
>(hmm, I don't seem to have this file, although 'dpkg -L xbase' says I do!)
>
>In short, you will need to install some additional packages, notably
>xfonts-base.
>
>Bob
>
>On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, rod peters wrote:
>
>> Cripes!
>>
>> fatal server error:
>> could not open default font 'fixed'
>> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 111
>> giving up.
>>
>> xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
>>
>> xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error
>>
>>
>> I just upgraded to slink and now this message comes up. Any hints?
>> thanks
>>
>> rod
>>
>
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I have tried to do that through dselect, but it (dselect) goes into a loop
and I cant get back to the main menu to select install. If I install kde on
my system, will this problem go away? or not?
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