Re: Problems starting X,v.4.0.3 -- still

[Lukas Ruf <ruf@tik.ee.ethz.ch>]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Charl P. Botha wrote:

> Okay, now down to the desperate nitty-gritty.  Please check your fonts.alias
> file in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc for the "fixed" alias.  Then check
> that the expansion (e.g.
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1) exists in
> fonts.dir.  Then check that the file it refers to (e.g. 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz)
> also exists and is not damaged (e.g. copy it somewhere else and gunzip; the
> CRC checking will croak if something went wrong).
>
Here we are!!!! Thanks very much.

But still, probably someone has an idea what went wrong:
- I had an empty misc/fonts.alias
- when I run update-fonts-alias on misc, a file called
  misc/fonts.alias.update-new was created -- but empty.

=> I copied the fonts.alias from my up and running laptop
XFree-installation and now it runs.

Nonetheless, I would be very interested in knowing why the f...
update-fonts-alias failed -- or what I made wrong.

Thanks for all your help!!! Thanks to all of you.

Lukas