I didn't see the original post, but I just ran into this 2 days ago on a system upgrade. I suspect something is broken in the package dependencies, but I'm not sure where. I did many searches on google and the debian lists and found some solutions. None of them worked for me, but most of them all followed the same pattern of:
1. remove all of your x packages 2. reinstall all of your x packages I tried several different permutations of this, and all of them failed. Finally, I used the tasksel program, and selected something like x-window-system. It churned away for a while, and when it was done, x sort of worked. The 'sort of' part is that the config file it generated from the questions I answered in the dpkg configure script made it so that X couldn't figure out what kind of screen I had specified. Luckily, I had my config file from an earlier installation lying around and plugged that one in place. On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 05:28:05PM +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: > >Everytime I go to startx I get the error message that it can't find Fixed > >Fonts and x dies. Apparently this is a known problem and there is a fix for > >it. But after 2 hours of searching all I have is a headache. I've poked > >around in XF86Config but there was nothing there about fixed fonts either. > > > >Anyone know what the fix is and if so could you tell me.
