On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 09:10:09PM -0400, Dan Christensen (jdc@julian.uwo.ca) wrote:
> 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?
$ apt-get install foo --reinstall
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