I mentioned that after a yesterday recent install of etch and then apt-get dist-upgrade to sid Xorg wont start.
I get an error message in Xorg.log Fatal server error: Could not open default cursor font 'cursor'. I googled and see that this error should be related to the xfont-base package. Why? In fact for gentoo the corresponding error message is refered to in their http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Modular_Xorg wiki page as being solved by: merge font-cursor-misc In debian this is a function of xfonts-base package. So I removed --purge and then reinstalled this package. I get the following error message from install of xfonts-base warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory warning: /etc/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory warning: /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc does not exist or is not a directory These files exist happily on my other sid machines. They have nice contents 1) ls /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc fonts.alias fonts.cache-1 2) ls /etc/X11/fonts/misc xfonts-base.alias This absence seems to be the source of my problems. What can I do to solve them? Is this a bug in xfonts-base? Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
