Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:40:15 +0200 From: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Could not open default font 'fixed'" after upgrade 6.9->7.2 Message-ID: <20070803154015.GA4096@aurora.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <20070803125546.GA2880@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20070803125546.GA2880@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:55:46PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > After successfully upgrading Xorg from 6.9 -> 7.2 as per > /usr/ports/UPDATING I built a new xorg.conf using "Xorg -configure". > > When starting X with the new config-file, i.e. "X -config > xorg.conf.new" it bails bails out with the following error: > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' Hi, Just figured this one out myself a minute ago: The trick was to re-install font-misc-misc and font-cursor-misc. Dunno why these were left out when Installing the Xorg meta-port (i.e. x11/xorg as per UPDATING), but reinstalling them made this error disappear. -ewald
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