Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'
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> On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote:
> > Dwayne C . Litzenberger:
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> > > 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 di=
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> > > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and
> > > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened?
> >=20
> > Are your fonts still there? Is you xfonts-base package correctly installe=
> d?
> >=20
> > > I assume this has happened to others who upgraded to potato 1999-Nov-21.
> > > Anyone got it fixed?
> >=20
> > I just did an apt update a few minutes ago, and X works fine here.
> >=20
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> Okay, I fixed it, but I don't know why it works. I copied
> /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias (which didn't exist for some
> reason).
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> It's a quick fix, but I would appreciate knowing what's actually going on.
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Perhaps somehow update-fonts-alias (8) was not called although it should been ?
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