Re: problems with potato and X11

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 29 Nov, Craig_Askings@xircom.com wrote about "problems with potato and X11"
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded my system last night from slink to potato and now X11 will not start.
> First off it was complaining that the 75dpi fonts was missing a fonts.dir file.
> Which I manageged to fix.
> However it is now complaining that it can't open the default font "fixed".
> Where do I find this font? or where do I change the default.
> 

When I upgraded from 3.3.4 for slink to 3.3.5-1 for potato I had
similiar problems with 'fixed'.  All I had to do was restart the font
servers and then restart X.  Try running '/etc/init.d/xfs restart'.

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