Re: Broken X in testing ?

[Joel Mayes <joel_mayes@dingoblue.net.au>]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 07:35:55PM +0200, Dominique Deleris wrote:
> Hi there !
> 
> Yesterday evening I performed an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' for my
> woody box (as every week).
> 
> I can not anymore start X, I get the following error message in /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> plus this message on the console at boot time :
> [drm] Process 1130 dead (ctx 3, d_s = 0x00)
> 
> Any idea ?
> 
> Dominique
> 
> 
> 
G'day Dominique,

I had this problem last night, cuase by an install
of the unifont package, which remove a fonts.alias file from one of my
font directories ( I think ) I fixed it by making fonts.alias file
in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ containing "fixed default8x16"

Cheers

Joel