Re: dist-upgrade in woody and now no X

["Donald R. Spoon" <dspoon@satx.rr.com>]

Eric White <ewhite@ssc.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I dist-upgraded last night and now X fails with this
> message:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> I don't see any reference to a 'fixed' font in my
> XF86Config-4 file.  Any pointers on where to look 
> to fix this are much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.

Do a "apt-get update" then run "apt-get --reinstall install
xfonts-base".  This should get rid of this error and get X running,
provided you don't have other problems.

This is a frequent problem encountered on an upgrade from Potato to
Woody...many other posts on this Mailing Lists.  You might want to scan
back through this month's messages to get a discussion of
this...something about a "munged" alias file, I think.

Cheers,
-Don Spoon-