on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:00:54PM -0700, Robert Gill (locke@apozem.org) wrote:
> Today I updated my sid machine, just as I do every day. There were some
> new X packages and they seemed to install cleanly. I even restarted X
> just to double check, and everything ran fine. So this is probably
> something I foolishly brought on myself.
> I was reading the list and there were a few posts on ext3. This
> reminded me that I've been meaning to try that out since my cat keeps
> pulling out my power cords. So I downloaded kernel-2.4.12 and the ac3
> patch (I was previously running 2.4.10), enabled ext3 support and compiled.
> No problems there. Then I rebooted and enabled journaling with
> 'tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1`, again there were apparently no problems. When I
> startx I get these errors (pardon long lines):
>
> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list!
> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list!
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
>
>
> Oddly the speedo and type1 fonts seem to be exempt from these errors.
> Anyone have a clue? I'll post my entire XFree86.log on request.
Reinstall fonts:
$ apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-misc xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
(Check package names, I'm not positive on that).
I also found my 'fixed' alias didn't exist, posted recently to this
list, see archives.
Peace.
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