On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 04:33:49PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote: > I'm a new user to Debian GNU/Linux and Linux in general. Also, I do > not subscribe to this mail list, so please cc: me in any reply. > > I had a problem starting X for the first time after a new installation > of Deban GNU/Linux 3.0 r1. All packages were installed from the > distribution CDs. I started X using the startx script.
Was this an installation within vmware? > In short, the error is > > The start of the X server failed with the message: > PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M > > The message also told me that this "should not happen!" and that I should > send the log file to this address. Yes. Actually the odds are that "PEXExtensionInit" has nothing to do with it, but that something else is failing and neglected to issue a message saying what was wrong. Bad programmer, bad. If you could provide the following to this bug's address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), it would be helpful: The output of the following commands: 1) lspci 2) lspci -n 3) cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 Thank you! -- G. Branden Robinson | "There is no gravity in space." Debian GNU/Linux | "Then how could astronauts walk [EMAIL PROTECTED] | around on the Moon?" http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | "Because they wore heavy boots."
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