On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Michael P wrote:
After restarting my computer to install a new kernel, X refuses to start.
I get:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
I recently ran into this problem and here is my fix.
dpkg -i --force-confmiss
hi ya michael
Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config ( at the beginning )
Fonts
...
FontPath unix/:-1
if you have it, you probably need to be running xfs ( x fontserver )
or
(quickie test) comment it out and test to see if works...
X -probeonly will tell you what else you might
After restarting my computer to install a new kernel, X refuses to start.
I get:
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in three
days, and I upgrade packages every day, so I'm not sure what caused it. I
searched
Michael P wrote:
| This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in
| three days, and I upgrade packages every day, so I'm not sure what
| caused it. I searched bugs.debian.org and mailing list archives, but
| no one else seems to have the same problem.
Other people
I think it's a different issue, as I just got hit by it on my laptop, and
I don't have any biznet fonts installed, and it being a laptop, means it
reboots a lot. In fact, over the past 2 days, I haven't installed any X
Core package, so I have no idea what has changed over the past couple of
| This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in
| three days, and I upgrade packages every day, so I'm not sure what
| caused it. I searched bugs.debian.org and mailing list archives, but
| no one else seems to have the same problem.
This is recent breakage in
yup, figured that out about 30 minutes ago, was about to send an e-mail
to the list. I actually just reinstalled xfonts-base, which did the
same thing.
shaya
On Thu, 2001-11-08 at 14:25, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
| This is the first time I've rebooted (or probably even exited X) in
| three
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