Philomena wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I encountered that very aggravating problem twice during various installs
> - the way I "fixed" this was to make sure and format the partitions I was
> setting up. This was when doing a clean install and I didn't need to save
> any data that was already there. Don't know why the formatting would have
> done anything, but it got me past that point. I hope there is a better
> solution out there !
This generally happens when you are out of disk space on "/" and so its
unable to write new files to /tmp.. so make sure you do "df -h" whenever u
see somethign weird with linux ;)
-sarang
>
> Cheers,
> philomena
>
> At 11:23 AM 8/17/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone
> >
> > Got a problem. After the install Xdrake was setting-up the Xwindows
> > environment and I got this error: Unable to find the default font
> > "fixed". Change some parameters!!!
> >
> > So I try changing all the parameter that I know and it still gives me
> > the same error message.
> >
> > So I reinstall taking the automatic installation and install
> > everything thinking that I missed something but to no avail. So I go
> > and check to make sure that the font is actually there and it is .. SO
> > what is my Next step.. I know I'm missing something but can't figure
> > out what...
> >
> > Thanks
