On 15 Apr 2006, James Westby wrote: > On (15/04/06 11:10), Anthony Campbell wrote: > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > From: Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:10:58 +0100 > > Subject: Today's disaster with xorg update > > Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > > > After today's upgrade on Sid, X will no longer come up. > > The error message says: Fatal server error: could not open default font > > "fixed". > > > > The x fonts are still there however. Anyone else seeing this? > > > > Check the font paths in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, i found they had changed. > Mine haven't changed and to make matters worse something I've done to try to solve the problem has made matters worse. I'm now getting a new error about not being able to move /var/log/Xorg.log.0.
I'm seriously thinking of purging all the packages related to X and starting again, except that I don't know which they are. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
