Re: locale and font alias

[T <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:51:44 -0700, Willie Wonka wrote:

>> My system comes with default locale not English. How can set the default
>> locale to English?
> 
> ~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales  	#As a User ~$ dpkg-reconfigure locales
> #As Root

thanks for the clear and detailed instruction. Having done it, the
x-window font problem still exists:

>>  Fatal server error:
>>  could not open default font 'fixed';
>> 
>> How can I fix that?
>> 
>> Note, remove and re-install xfonts-base didn't help.

> If you want to use Xfree86 (Default on "Sarge") make sure you have
> atleast these

I have all the required. 

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -E 'xserver|x-window|xfonts'
x-window-system-core                            install
xfonts-100dpi                                   install
xfonts-75dpi                                    install
xfonts-artwiz                                   install
xfonts-base                                     install
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-75dpi                     install
xfonts-bolkhov-cp1251-misc                      install
xfonts-encodings                                install
xfonts-intl-european                            install
xfonts-konsole                                  install
xfonts-scalable                                 install
xfonts-terminus                                 install
xfonts-utils                                    install
xserver-common                                  install
xserver-xorg                                    install

> Here's some Font entries in my Sarge XF86Config-4 file; [...] Section
> "Files"

Here is mine, (for etch, from /etc/X11/xorg.conf):

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        RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
        ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
-----------------------

Relevant info in /var/log/Xorg.0.log:

-----------------------
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Sep 13 23:35:31 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(**) FontPath set to
"unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100d
pi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/li
b/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" (==) RgbPath set to
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"

(II) Loading extension FontCache

(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
-----------------------


As I said, it was working fine, until I removed all xfonts-*-transcoded
fonts. Now it is "could not open default font 'fixed'".

I did some googling, the
"http://forums.linuxiso.org/viewtopic.php?t=28644"; tells how to handle the
problem, but mine is not covered. 

I did find the same symptom as mine:
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Debian/2004-03/1589.html

but that one has no answer. 

please help. My X is not starting. 

thanks a lot