Bug#395143: Fails to generate /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

Package: xfonts-base
Version: 1:1.0.0-4
Severity: normal


After installing and then uninstalling xpdf-chinese-simplified, 
xfonts-intl-chinese, and xfonts-intl-chinese-big, I lost my 'fixed' font 
and X11 won't start. (Since I'm not entirely confident about the 
sequence of events, I'm not reporting this.)

When I reinstall xfonts-base, I see from the list of files that it 
should generate /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias, but that doesn't 
happen -- and I still don't have a 'fixed' font and can't run X.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages xfonts-base depends on:
ii  xfonts-utils                  1:1.0.0-6  X Window System font utility progr

xfonts-base recommends no packages.

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