I've posted three times on debian-user about this without any response yet, so I hope someone here can give some advice.
I ran an update on my Sid machine yesterday and the server now fails to start saying it can't find "fixed" fonts. My /etc/X11/misc/xfonts-base.alias file has fixed as: $ grep ^fixed /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-15 but that doesn't map to any fonts in /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir due to iso8859-15. I extracted /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-base_4.3.0-5_all.deb and the package has xfonts-base.alias with 8859-1 encodings: $ dpkg-deb -x /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-base_4.3.0-5_all.deb xbase $ grep ^fixed xbase/etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 My LANG is en_US. Why is my installed xfonts-base.alias different from the one in the .deb? Why the 8859-15 encodings? I removed my xfonts-base.alias file and ran dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-base_4.3.0-5_all.deb but the xfonts-base.alias file was not recreated. I'm not clear if this is problem with my installation, or the xfonts-base package, or some config issue on my machine. Could someone please explain why my xfonts-base.alias is wrong and not being updated with the version from the package? I did get the server running again by copying the xfonts-base.alias file from the extracted .deb into /etc/X11/fonts/misc and running update-fonts-alias misc. Thanks, -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
