Re: Broken X in testing ?

[Dominique Deleris <ddeleris@bluewin.ch>]

"Donald R. Spoon" <dspoon@satx.rr.com> writes:

> I had this same problem a couple of nights ago while doing a "apt-get
> dist-upgrade" from Potato to Testing.  I had seen this same problem
> before a few months ago, and it was the fonts that time, so I went
> directly to "dselect" and inspected the installed fonts.  Although I
> specifically remembered them being "installed" during the apt-get
> dist-upgrade, they didn't seem to be there in the dselect menu!  I
> selected the fonts I wanted (including xfonts-base) and "installed" them
> again.  This cleared up the error message and X started working for me.
> 
> You might want to try what I did or, alternatively, try an "apt-get
> install --reinstall <font package list>" and see what happens.  I would
> suggest re-installing the xfonts-base + the 75dpi fonts and/or the 100
> dpi fonts as a minimum.  I too "thought" the correct fonts were
> installed, but apparently they were not.
> 

Thanks very much ! "apt-get install --reinstall <fonts-packages>" has corrected my
problem :-)

Weird problem, anyhow...

Dominique