Xfree86 and vnc wouldn't start
Anthony Tekatch
anthony-e6QRBlwUI3iaMJb+Lgu22Q at public.gmane.org
Mon Sep 26 17:54:33 UTC 2005
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:28:17 -0400, lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> Here is the debian irc channel's standard response when someone says X
> can't find the font 'fixed:
That's almost exactly what X says after it crashes! Damn robots!!
> 11:25 <LSorensen> fixed
> 11:25 <dpkg> if you have a problem XFree86 it not finding 'fixed' font,
> see fonts.alias, or /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz, or make sure
> xfonts-base is installed, or purge and reinstall it, or see fontfix
I looked for /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz , it did not exist,
probably in some DOC package that did not get installed by default.
> So if your distribution has a package called xfonts-base or xfonts or
> something similar, make sure it is installed.
I tried removing and re-installing that and more, no luck just more time
wasted.
> rceng02:/var/www/debian386/kernel-source-2.6.8-16-486-rr_1# cat
> /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias |grep fixed
> fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
> etc...
>
> That is where the font named 'fixed' comes from.
>
> Without it, X won't run.
The misc directory was in place. It was the artwiz-cursor package junk
that somehow did something to make that misc font unreadable. I know
that's not much help, just another thing to try.
Anthony Tekatch
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