Re: how to purge my system of the Ximian stuff (Was: Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'")

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Buffalo Phil wrote: > > how can I <> ? I'm not sure what the best way is but . . . find the offending ximian package (you said dpkg -l|grep ximian which sounds good) and run: #apt-cache show this should tell you all about the ximian package and the Debian package that it replaces.

Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-06-07 Thread Andrew D Dixon
Mario Vukelic wrote: > > Hi! > > After an install of Ximian gnome for potato with red-carpet It's a bad idea to run Ximian with Debian. Ximian messes stuff up all the time (even in stable) so you'll have to keep dealing with stuff like this over and over again. My suggestion, purge your syste

how to purge my system of the Ximian stuff (Was: Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'")

2001-06-07 Thread Buffalo Phil
hi, Andrew D Dixon wrote : >From: Andrew D Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'" >To: Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 09:15:01 -0500 > &

X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-06-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi! After an install of Ximian gnome for potato with red-carpet (X was not touched) my woody laptop won't start X with "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" My other machine with the same config, as far as I can see, in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (except for the driver of course)

Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-06-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 04 Jun 2001 14:53:43 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Hi! > > After an install of Ximian gnome for potato with red-carpet (X was not > touched) my woody laptop won't start X with > > "Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed'" apt-get --reinstall install xfonts-base helped, maybe

Re: X: "could not open default font 'fixed'"

2001-06-07 Thread Mario Vukelic
On 04 Jun 2001 09:15:01 -0500, Andrew D Dixon wrote: > My suggestion, purge your system of the > Ximian stuff and use the Gnome packages from the Debian distro. Yeah, I know, standard answer :) -- I did not vote for the Austrian government

Re: Debug X - "could not open default font 'fixed' "

2001-01-10 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 09 2001, M David Tilson wrote: > It's a "fatal server error" - How to fix? Try to reinstall the xfonts-base package. It worked for me when I was using X4. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogerio Brito - [EM

re: Debug X - "could not open default font 'fixed' "

2001-01-09 Thread M David Tilson
It's a "fatal server error" - How to fix? Thanks to all who have been helping me. I'll do my thank you notes next time I am on AOL.

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> > --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > >=20 > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font >

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread Achim Bohnet
>>>"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > > > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > > > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I di= >

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 07:56:26PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > > > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no g

Re: Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread peter karlsson
Dwayne C . Litzenberger: > I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font > 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a > fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and > xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened?

Latest potato killed X: could not open default font 'fixed'

1999-11-22 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
Help! I just lost X overnight. I'm getting that idiot fatal server error, "could not open default font 'fixed'", again. My FontPath is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and I did a fresh mkfontdir in that directory. Still no go. I have both xfs and xfstt running, and nothing. What just happened?