on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:23:36PM -0500, Xingguo Pan (pan@anninghe.princeton.edu) wrote:
>
> My X window refuses to start because of a fatal error:
>
> could not open default font 'fixed'.
>
> I'm using debian testing. After x crashed, I reinstalled 100dpi
> fonts and x-window-system-base. I checked with /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
> and couldn't find anything suspicious. However, shortly before the
> crash, I played with locale in KDE 2.2.1 and apt-get update&upgrade
> the system.
>
> Has anyone met similar problem before?
I found that my font aliases were fuxnored at one point. From an Oct
16, 2001 post:
I just ran across the "cannot find font 'fixed'" on a Woody box running
XF86v4. I found the following made a difference.
In /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias wsa the line:
fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
Checking with xfontsel, this font wasn't available. However:
fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-100-100-100-c-60-iso8859-1
...works, and provides a 'fixed' font.
Peace.
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