On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 08:26:32PM +0000, john gennard wrote: >I've just re-installed Potato 2.2 r4 (following changes to hard disks) -this >is something I have not done for a long time as I don't have crashes. Now >I have a problem not encountered before. > >When trying to 'startx', I get the following error message:- > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > >I can make no sense of this and don't know what is involved. So far as I
Yes - its one of the most useless error messages ever. Stumped me for days til I posted to this list. >can remember I followed a normal minmal install and then used apt-get >for my main programs including KDE. What you have missed is the xfonts-base xfonts-100dpi and xfonts-75dpi Installing these fixed it for me.
