tag 193175 + moreinfo thanks On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 02:34:10PM +0200, Pedram Azad wrote: > Package: xfonts-base > Version: 4.1.0-16 > > I don't get any errors during installation. When trying to run startx > finally I get the following (popular) fatal error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > I figured out that there really is no alias for the font "fixed". In > /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc there is no fonts.alias file but a > fonts.alias.update-new file whose only contents are: > > !! fonts.alias -- automatically generated file. DO NOT EDIT. > !! To modify, see update-fonts-alias(8). > > I then figured out that there is no alias file in /etc/X11/fonts/misc which > should be the reason for update-fonts-alias failing. It's likely that the conffile /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias was deleted, and dpkg is attempting to respect what it perceived to be your desire that the file remain deleted. Try re-installing the xfonts-base package with the "--force-confmiss" option passed to dpkg. Also, the subject of your bug report confuses me. "/etc/X11/fonts/misc" is a directory, not a file. -- G. Branden Robinson | Mob rule isn't any prettier just Debian GNU/Linux | because you call your mob a branden@debian.org | government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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