on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 09:00:54PM -0700, Robert Gill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Today I updated my sid machine, just as I do every day. There were some > new X packages and they seemed to install cleanly. I even restarted X > just to double check, and everything ran fine. So this is probably > something I foolishly brought on myself. > I was reading the list and there were a few posts on ext3. This > reminded me that I've been meaning to try that out since my cat keeps > pulling out my power cords. So I downloaded kernel-2.4.12 and the ac3 > patch (I was previously running 2.4.10), enabled ext3 support and compiled. > No problems there. Then I rebooted and enabled journaling with > 'tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1`, again there were apparently no problems. When I > startx I get these errors (pardon long lines): > > Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, > removing from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, removing > from list! > Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from > list! > Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list! > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > Oddly the speedo and type1 fonts seem to be exempt from these errors. > Anyone have a clue? I'll post my entire XFree86.log on request.
Reinstall fonts:
$ apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-misc xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
(Check package names, I'm not positive on that).
I also found my 'fixed' alias didn't exist, posted recently to this
list, see archives.
Peace.
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