> > --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > >=20 > > > 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 di= > d a > > > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and > > > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened? > >=20 > > Are your fonts still there? Is you xfonts-base package correctly installe= > d? > >=20 > > > I assume this has happened to others who upgraded to potato 1999-Nov-21. > > > Anyone got it fixed? > >=20 > > I just did an apt update a few minutes ago, and X works fine here. > >=20 > > 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. >
Perhaps somehow update-fonts-alias (8) was not called although it should been ?
