On 9/18/13, Darac Marjal <mailingl...@darac.org.uk> wrote: > Either would suggest to me a lost/corrupt file...
Your careful (quite impressive, actually) reply encouraged me to inspect my collection of font files. I noticed a discrepancy between: /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias and /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/fonts.alias ...in that the former contained the much-sought-after 'fixed' alias, whereas the latter did not. It contained only references to the terminus font, which I had <gulp> recently installed. I rummaged around in my kludge toolbox and overwrote the latter nfg alias file with the former, and the vnc server started up like a charm. (/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc is, unless I am sadly mistaken again, in tightvncserver's fontpath. I suppose I will learn in time what I have broken by virtue of this subterfuge. I am convinced that installing the terminus font caused the havoc. I am sure there are handy debian tools for tidying up such messes. I ran 'update-fonts-alias misc' as suggested in the moved-out-of-the-way alias file (i.e. the one full of terminus references and little else), and that didn't improve things as far as the mention of a "fixed" font was concerned, hence the last gasp resort kludgery. -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut? http://trollboy.thruhere.net:8080/MontyPython/fish.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAJvq95MHQV+AVSXZxBR=w-8WL7qC-Pi=lv-psd2wa9d0jpx...@mail.gmail.com
