Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Glenn M. Brunette wrote: >> I have been running Nevada builds 55 and 56 in Parallels on a Mac >> PowerBook Pro with the attached xorg.conf file with no problems since >> each of those builds were made available. I have used this >> configuration file to get both 1440x900 at 74Hz and 1280x1024 with no >> problem. >> Yesterday, I installed build 57 (with quite some difficulty unrelated >> to Xorg). It seems however that my xorg.conf file that had worked >> previously now no longer works. The window system fails to come up. >> Worse than that, the window system exits back to a command line login >> but the terminal emulation has been corrupted and I am unable to >> execute any commands to correct the situation. >> >> I have attached my /var/dt/Xerrors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files as >> well as a screen shot showing >> the terminal emulation problems that I am seeing. Please let me know >> if there is any other data that you need. > > Xerrors & Xorg.0.log both say: > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > I bet if you check your upgrade log you will find a number of font > packages, > such as SUNWxwfnt failed to upgrade. To recover, pkgrm them and pkgadd > the versions from the build 57 media.
You nailed it. There were about 10-20 font related packages that had not installed properly. They were the only ones to partially fail which is interesting. I simply reinstalled them from the ISO image and everything is working as expected! Thank you for your help! g
