could not open default font 'fixed'
The subject line is a failure message from tightvncserver, running on
squeeze. For a reason unknown to me this package began to fail to
launch two days ago, AFTER LITERALLY YEARS OF UNINTERRUPTED,
completely hiccup-free, performance!
Time spent on google reveals that this is not an uncommon error
message for this particular vnc server. All the fixes posted online
urge me to state in the server startup script what the fontpath is.
I have never needed to do this, but I *don't know* what my fontpath
is! Nor how to properly state it in the suggested startup script.
Finally, like everyone else I suppose, I have many fixed width fonts
on this machine. How would a fontpath indicate a "default font fixed".
Best,
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