----- Forwarded message from Jim Gale <jimg@cray.com> ----- From: Jim Gale <jimg@cray.com> To: branden@debian.org Subject: X can't find font 'fixed' and I'm going nuts! Message-Id: <200102240319.f1O3JQh23231@shiva.wc.cray.com> I'm getting a weird message from X when I try to start it: Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I get this error with both XF4 and Xf3. It first appeared with 4.0.2-4 (but it could be unrelated to the version) and now I'm at 4.0.2-7. The people on #debian seemed to be familiar with this as being a symptom of an incorrectly installed xfonts-base. I tried several times to uninstall xfonts*, xserver*, xfree* and reinstall them. It didn't help. I removed all packages related to X and deleted the remaining /etc/X11 and /usr/X11R6 cruft and then re-installed everything. Didn't help. (yeah, I was desperate.) I've checked and monkeyed endlessly with /etc/X11/XF86Config* to try and get it to work. Same thing every time. My package database is up-to-date and doesn't have any problems that I can see. So in desperation I am emailing you hoping that you might have an idea about what might be wrong or where I could turn to for help. I'm including the /var/log/XFree86.0.log in case you think it might be useful. Thanks for any help you can provide and also for providing me with a (mostly) excellent operating system, Jim ----- End forwarded message ----- -- G. Branden Robinson | Men use thought only to justify their Debian GNU/Linux | wrong doings, and speech only to conceal branden@debian.org | their thoughts. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Voltaire
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