On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Dave Eidson wrote: > Regarding the missing fixed font, it appears that update-fonts-alias > isn't working correctly. When run, it creates a file named > fonts.alias.update-new in the specified font dir that contains only > the "DO NOT EDIT" messages... no alias info is created. How can I get > around this?
Well, I managed to get it working. No real idea what the real problem is/was, but for anyone interested, here's what I did. Originally, used dselect and installed x-window-system meta package, seemed to install fine, no errors at all. But there were problems with the font aliases, and /etc/X11 contained nothing but the expected subdirectories and and XF86Config-4 file. Manually creating the alias file got me past the "missing fixed font" issue, but more problems popped up due to not having the needed files in /etc/X11 (Xsession, Xservers, rgb.txt etc). Using dselect to remove all the X packages, rebooting, and reinstalling X gave the same results. Utimately, after reinstalling for the 43rd time (everybody always exaggerates), I manually went through and did a dpkg --purge on each X package installed, following the required dependancies, until X was no more. Then, did the same thing I had done originally, dselect, install x-window-system, and bingo! 4.1 came up and flew like an eagle. Added the necessary apt lines and proceeded to upgrade to 4.2 with no problems whatsoever. X is working like a charm. I have no idea what the gremlin was that was behind all of this. I would have bet there was a problem with one of the packages. But obviously that wasn't the case. Not sure I understand it, but I shant question it. Perhaps this bit of trivia will help someone else along.
