I ran into this exact problem as well on two different systems: Ubuntu server
7.04 AMD64 and kubuntu desktop 7.10 i386. I installed vncserver on both using
apt-get:
sudo apt-get install vncserver
Any attempt to start a vncserver exited with "Fatal server error: could
not open default font 'fixed'" in the log file.
Investigating the problem, I noticed an issue with the fontPath setting in the
vncserver launch script.
$fontPath = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/"
A delimiter is missing after the "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/" entry.
This is keeping anything below it from being added to the fontPath.
Adding a single comma here fixed the problem for me. I attached the
edited vncserver launch script. The only change is that single comma.
$fontPath = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,".
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/,".
"/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/,".
"/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/"
I hope this helps,
Ron
** Attachment added: "vncserver lauch script with fixed fontPath"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10104943/vncserver
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