Re: XFree86: Fatal Server error

2001-12-11 Thread Scott H. Hawley
Branden, Thanks very much. I followed your advice, and I did some further checking in hopes of finding this rogue package to no avail. I have tried removing xfonts-base and re-installing it, to no avail. I even removed everything in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ directory. I removed all

XFree86: Fatal Server error

2001-12-11 Thread Scott H. Hawley
I just installed XFree86 in a new installation of Debain (testing). When I try to run it XFree86, I get an error: Fatal server error could not open default font 'fixed' I've installed the xfonts-base (and of course xfree86-common) but I'm still not having any luck. I looked for a font called "

Re: libc6 messed up, no success recovering

2001-12-10 Thread Scott H. Hawley
init! do you have any other recommendations? Thanks, Scott On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:05:48PM +0100, Scott H. Hawley wrote: > > > > # dpkg --x /mnt/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6*deb /mnt > > /mnt/usr/bin/dpkg: /lib/libc.so.6: versio

libc6 messed up, no success recovering

2001-12-10 Thread Scott H. Hawley
I read with interest the thread "removed libc6, how to recover" on this list. (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/debian-user-22/msg02109.html) But the instructions didn't help me. > Assuming the .deb of libc6 is still on your system (in > /var/cache/apt/archives/), you might try bootin