Re: Aarrggg! fonts & 4.0.1-4 (again :(
I was able to solve this problem by reinstalling xfonts-base. The problem
is discussed in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz at the bottom. My
problem was that the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file did not
exist on the first install for some reason. The re-install fixed it.
Gerry
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Ian Stuart wrote:
> I did an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1-4 (..-3 was fine) and now I' can't get X
> to start at all.
>
> I've got the same "Fatal server error: could not open default font
> 'fixed'" that others have got.
>
> I've forced atp to do a reinstall of all the xfonts, freefont and the
> gsfonts; i've also forced xserver-xfree86, xfree-common and xutils
>
> I've tried using the font server xfs (which gives no errors :), specifying
> /usr/lib/X11/fonts/<blah>, and a font-server from a red-hat box my
> colleage is using (he's also using 4.0.1)
>
> I've made sure that mkfontdir has been run in each directory.
>
> I can't locate any X 4.0.1-3 .debs, so I really need a fix :)
> (and my boss is hassling me to do some work :)
>
> Here is the relevent section from my XF86Config file:
> ------- include ---------
> Section "Files"
> # FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font
> server
> # FontPath "tcp/ceres.ucs.ed.ac.uk:7100"
> # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
> FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
> # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/"
> EndSection
> ------- end include ----------
>
> and here is the error from startx (run as root, no less!)
>
> ----- include -------
> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from
> list!
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages.
> This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
> Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.
>
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> ---------- end include ----------
>
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