Re: X gone all goofy

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> First time this has happened in some time, but after a
> fairly minor apt-get dist-upgrade, X no longer seems to
> want to work. I have attached the full output of the
> command (I don't know whether it is relevant), but the tail
> end of it is as follows:
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

Odd ... I had the same problem late last week. I hadn't seen anyone else
post about it so I did, asking for help. Got zero responses.

Oh well, I figured it out in the meantime. Do this:

apt-get remove xfonts-base
apt-get install xfonts-base

Good luck
Hall