On 4/15/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 16:02:44 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 15 Apr 2006, Chris wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:10 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > > > > Commenting out all FontPaths but these in /etc/xorg.conf > > > > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled" > > > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled" > > > > > > allowed me to login again with gdm (no startx just yet). > > > > > > I also changed the module path: > > > ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules" > > > > > > > > > > > Didn't help here (but I don't have gdm). Unless I include the path to > > /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc it complains about no default file, but if I > > do include it I get "FPE: "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, > > should be 1; fixing" > > > > I have no idea what this means and Google is not enlightening. > > I get the same error message, but X still starts for me, both with > "startx" from the console and with graphical log-in via kdm. Therefore I > would guess that you have an additional problem. Do you find any error > messages or warnings in the log files after you try to start X? > > Try to run > > egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > Maybe that will turn up something useful to diagnose the problem.
Today once again I did dist-upgrade. I made mdsum filr for xorg.conf and did dpkg-reconfigure. Still x didn't start. Output as below after keeping only font lines mentioned by you. X Window System Version 7.0.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0 Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.12-1-686 i686 Current Operating System: Linux lvgdell600m 2.6.15.20060311 #1 Sat Mar 11 15:57:59 PST 2006 i686 Build Date: 16 March 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 15 15:02:34 2006 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. Synaptics DeviceOn called Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. Excerpts from log [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat bin/xerrorcheck egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xerrorcheck (WW) RADEON(0): Failed to detect secondary monitor, MergedFB/Clone mode disabled [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail /var/log/Xorg.0.log Synaptics DeviceInit called SynapticsCtrl called. (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Synaptics DeviceOn called (--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event3 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event3" (--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I am at loss to understand what to do to get back my kde? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042