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 xserver-xfree86, xfree-common and xutils I've tried using the font server xfs (which gives no errors :), specifying /usr/lib/X11/fonts/<blah>, and a font-server from a red-hat box my colleage is using (he's also using 4.0.1) I've made sure that mkfontdir has been run in each directory. I can't locate any X 4.0.1-3 .debs, so I really need a fix :) (and my boss is hassling me to do some work :) Here is the relevent section from my XF86Config file: ------- include --------- Section "Files" # FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server # FontPath "tcp/ceres.ucs.ed.ac.uk:7100" # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" # FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" EndSection ------- end include ---------- and here is the error from startx (run as root, no less!) ----- include ------- Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages. This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log". Please report problems to [EMAIL PROTECTED] XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. ---------- end include ---------- --==**==-- Ian Stuart - University computing services. --------------------------------- Truth is what you believe it to be. I cannot force my facts on you, only make you believe my beliefs. --------------------------------- http://lucas.ucs.ed.ac.uk/