Re: X Server can't find font `fixed'

[Dan Christensen <jdc@julian.uwo.ca>]

Michael Abraham Shulman <shulman@caltech.edu> writes:
> I just upgraded a bunch of packages to unstable and now my X server
> dies saying
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

This happened to me to.  I downloaded the xfonts-base deb and did dpkg
-i on it (same version I already had installed).  The problem was that
the file

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias

was missing, but to be safe I reinstalled the whole package.  I never
figured out what caused this.

BTW, is there a way to get apt to download and reinstall the current
version of a package?

Dan