Bug#193175: marked as done (missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc)
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From: "Pedram Azad" <Pedram.Azad@gmx.de>
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Subject: missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc
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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.
Regards.
Pedram
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#193175: missing alias file /etc/X11/fonts/misc
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 01:26:56AM +0200, Pedram Azad wrote:
> >Try re-installing the xfonts-base package with the "--force-confmiss"
> >option passed to dpkg.
>=20
> I did that, it fixed the problem as you said. Was it really a bug in
> xfonts-base?
Probably not.
> Do you have an idea which module was responsible for the deletion of
> the conffile?
No. It might not have even been a package at all. A simple rm command
(as root) is enough to do the trick.
> >Also, the subject of your bug report confuses me. "/etc/X11/fonts/misc"
> >is a directory, not a file.
>=20
> Sorry, I wanted to say "missing alias file in /etc/X11/fonts/misc".
>=20
> Thanks for your help.
No problem. Closing this report.
--=20
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