On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and > > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened? > > Are your fonts still there? Is you xfonts-base package correctly installed? > > > I assume this has happened to others who upgraded to potato 1999-Nov-21. > > Anyone got it fixed? > > I just did an apt update a few minutes ago, and X works fine here. >
Okay, I fixed it, but I don't know why it works. I copied
/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias to
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias (which didn't exist for some
reason).
It's a quick fix, but I would appreciate knowing what's actually going on.
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