Re: could not open default font 'fixed'
On 9/18/13, Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> wrote:
> Either would suggest to me a lost/corrupt file...
Your careful (quite impressive, actually) reply encouraged me to
inspect my collection of font files. I noticed a discrepancy between:
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias
and
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias
...in that the former contained the much-sought-after 'fixed' alias,
whereas the latter did not. It contained only references to the
terminus font, which I had <gulp> recently installed. I rummaged
around in my kludge toolbox and overwrote the latter nfg alias file
with the former, and the vnc server started up like a charm.
(/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc is, unless I am sadly mistaken again, in
tightvncserver's fontpath.
I suppose I will learn in time what I have broken by virtue of this
subterfuge. I am convinced that installing the terminus font caused
the havoc. I am sure there are handy debian tools for tidying up such
messes. I ran 'update-fonts-alias misc' as suggested in the
moved-out-of-the-way alias file (i.e. the one full of terminus
references and little else), and that didn't improve things as far as
the mention of a "fixed" font was concerned, hence the last gasp
resort kludgery.
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