I have used the Dec 96 InfoMagic cd set to install Debian 1.2 on a couple machines. On one machine I had trouble installing X. When dselect was installing/configuring xfntbase, the program mkfontdir printed a whole bunch of messages like this:
mkfontdir: unable to process font ./5x7.pcf.Z, skipping and mkfontdir ended up dumping core. Later, I was able to run X -probeonly, but when I tried to really run the X server, it complained about not being able to find the font 'fixed', and exited immediately. I noticed that there are two versions of xbase, 3.2-1 and 3.2-1a. There are also two versions of xlib6. When dselect is in the install step, I noticed that it says ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 3.2-1a of xbase already installed, skipping. Will not downgrade xbase from version 3.2-1a to 3.2-1, skipping. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- but then later it says ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Preparing to replace xlib6 3.2-1 (using .../x11/xlib6_3.2-1a.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlib6 ... Preparing to replace xlib6 3.2-1a (using .../x11/xlib6_3.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xlib6 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is on the machine that has the problem. Has anyone seen this problem? Any advice? -- Steve Preston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
