On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 09:17:18PM -0700, Jay Kelly wrote: > Hello Guys, I have a qestion on Xwindows. I had it working great with > Slink, Then I upgraded my box to Potato. Now when I try to start X I > receive an error: > > "Fatal server error: could not open font `fixed`
Common error... > So what will I need to do to fix this so I can use X again? Thanks > Jay Depends... First, you need to have xfonts-base, and probably xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi installed. They may have gotten removed for some reason (??). Next, look at /etc/X11/XF86Config near the top will be one or more FontPath declarations. If they are typical unix paths, make sure they all exist and are correct (/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, etc...). On the other hand, if you have something like "unix/:7100" then you need to be running a font server on that port (typically xfs, or xfs-xtt). So, make sure the font server is running by executing "/etc/init.d/xfs restart". If the server won't start, it probably has configuration errors. Check /etc/X11/xfs/config for the font paths. It's probably as simple as this later case, X wouldn't start because the font server needed to be restarted. That should do it. -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.