Re: unstable: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

[Josh McKinney <forming@home.com>]

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Michael P wrote:
> 
> > After restarting my computer to install a new kernel, X refuses to start.
> > I get:
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > 

I recently ran into this problem and here is my fix.  

dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-base_4.1.0-9_all.deb

Hope this helps.

Josh
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