Re: X server fatal error: can't find fixed font!
Which probably corresponds to the problem with apt-get reported a while ago.
Was it your case?
Let me include a copy of the report below
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I did apt-get update , apt-get dist-upgrade, after this the Xserver was
not working. Complained about fonts not installed, couldn't find them
etc. By pure chance I did apt-get install after a while and it fixed the
problem. The fonts had not been installed. Wasn't apt-get supposed to
handle the installation fully after doing apt-get dist-upgrade?
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Peter Schuller wrote:
> > I upgraded my XFree to 3.35 from slink without having installed the
> > slink one ( I had had to make a reinstallation because of a mistake
> > while root). Any way, when I started startx after runnig the xf86config,
> > it couldn't satrt any server, complained about fonts not found, asked to
> > run mkfontdir, which I did. After that I tried again and the the
> > complain was about "fixed font not found".
>
> I had a similar problem after upgrading to potato, and it turned out that
> the xfonts pacakges hadn't been installed correctly. Try veritying that
> xfonts-base is correctly installed (dpkg --list reported that is *was*
> intalled on on my system, but with no version number, but a dpkg --contents
> on the archive showed that is was, in fact, not installed properly).
>
> --
> / Peter Schuller
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