OK, solved. On 9 May, this message from To: Debian-powerpc echoed through cyberspace: > Today my X server stoped working, and complained about not finding the > 'fixed' font. I got it started finally by pointing it at some other Unix > box' font server, whihc has 'fixed' as an alias in > fonts/misc/fonts.alias. > > And indeed, I don't have a fonts.alias in my fonts/misc directory. I'm > now searching for the package that provides this file, so that I can > reinstall it. Doesn't explain why it seems to have disappeared, but I > hope that will fix the problem ;-)
Should have looked harder... it's xfonts-base. And the file is not contained in the package, but rather created with the script update-fonts-alias, which is run as postinst. > (yeah, I know this rather belongs on debian-user, but I'm not subscribed > there... sorry about that :-) And sorry for the wasted bandwidth :-) Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
