> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:37:50 +0200, Gert Langrock said: > > Hello, > > > > on sunday I did a apt-get upgrade on unstable and after > > this X was unable to start. It showed an error message > > saying that it was unable to load the default font > > "fixed". What is wrong and in which package? I also > > use xfs although I am not shure whether the Xserver uses > > it or not? > > i don't particularly like xfs. don't know why. seems a little useless to > have a server for one box. > perhaps for diskless Xterminals, maybe. nevertheless. > > you're either missing the xfonts-base package, or you don't have > > FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" > > in the Section "Files" of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > (most likely the former if you're trying to use xfs as your only means of > getting fonts, but that seems unlikely, unless you wrote your config > yourself. the debian config tool adds both iirc) > > this problem sometimes seems to show up. i've found the best way to get a > decent X install is to install the task-x-window-system-core package (or > the more extensive task-x-window-system package, which includes a great > number of utilities) >
The problem is solved. Both Font-path and package xfonts-base were set and installed. However since it was just an update to newer package versions i did not control the update process very carefully. It seeems that configuration of the package xfonts-base failed for some reason. A dpkg-reconfigure xfonts-base did the trick! Thanks for your help, Olaf
