I encountered the same problem. Doing a mkfontdir /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*
seems to fix the problem for Xfree servers; it still doesn't work after that for AcceleratedX though. -- Stephen Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [EMAIL PROTECTED] Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 24 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote: > Hi, > > last night I finally went through the work to update my rex > system to bo. Everything went pretty smooth, except that X > doesn't start up anymore. It gives me this error: > > Can't open default font "fixed" (or something very close to it) > > Has someone had this problem before? I have no clue what has gone wrong. > > Thanks a lot in advance for any hint or pointer! > Andy > ____________________________________________________________________ > Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl > PGP fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 > o _ _ _ > --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) > ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ > ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .