Aarrggg! fonts 4.0.1-4 (again :(

2000-11-16 Thread Ian Stuart
I did an upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1-4 (..-3 was fine) and now I' can't get X to start at all. I've got the same Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' that others have got. I've forced atp to do a reinstall of all the xfonts, freefont and the gsfonts; i've also forced

Re: Aarrggg! fonts 4.0.1-4 (again :(

2000-11-16 Thread debuser
I was able to solve this problem by reinstalling xfonts-base. The problem is discussed in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz at the bottom. My problem was that the /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias file did not exist on the first install for some reason. The re-install fixed it. Gerry On