Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

[peter karlsson <pk@mds.mdh.se>]

Dwayne C . Litzenberger:

> I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font
> 'fixed'", again.  My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a
> fresh mkfontdir in that directory.  Still no go.  I have both xfs and
> xfstt running, and nothing.  What just happened?

Are your fonts still there? Is you xfonts-base package correctly installed?

> I assume this has happened to others who upgraded to potato 1999-Nov-21.
> Anyone got it fixed?

I just did an apt update a few minutes ago, and X works fine here.

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