On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 19:35, fea wrote: > I currently use Debian/Sid/Unstable primarily in order to use > KDE 2.2.x (yes I know I deserve this, but it is so hard to resist). > Most of the time things are stable. However, an upgrade today > broke X for me. I have seen a couple of other folks with a similar > problem, but no solutions posted; hence, this attempt. The error > message near the tail of /var/log/XFree86.0.log: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Any help appreciated. >
Ty reinstall xfont-base package. It helped in my case (I noticed the same error exactly) but I have no idead why. Mariusz