Branden, Thanks very much. I followed your advice, and I did some further checking in hopes of finding this rogue package to no avail.
I have tried removing xfonts-base and re-installing it, to no avail. I even removed everything in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ directory. I removed all other fonts and again re-installed xfonts-base. > Running the command > > update-fonts-alias misc > > as root should fix the problem. This did not fix the problem either. I ran the command as root after I re-installed xfonts-base. I still get the same error message from XFree86. > Anything you can do to help track down > which package is clobbering the fonts.alias file will have my eternal > gratitude. I'd be happy to. so far no luck. As I said, I removed everything I thought would be part of the problem. > I'd really like to think that this isn't a problem that will > affect potato->woody upgraders... I am a potato->woody upgrader. I did it today. Any further ideas? Thanks, Scott