Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

[Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk>]

On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up.
> > The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font
> > "fixed".
> > 
> > The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else seeing this?
> > 
> Commenting out all FontPaths but these in /etc/xorg.conf
> 
> FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"                                                  
> FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
> 
> allowed me to login again with gdm (no startx just yet).
> 
> I also changed the module path:
> ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
> 
> 
> 
Didn't help here (but I don't have gdm). Unless I include the path to 
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc it complains about no default file, but if I
do include it I get "FPE: "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2,
should be 1; fixing"

I have no idea what this means and Google is not enlightening.

Anthony

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