can't startx after xorg upgrade: could not open default font 'fixed'

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Etienne Robillard <granted14 at yahoo.com>:

>
> Hi eculp,
>
> Yes -- I'm gettting the same results here on
> 7.0-CURRENT.
> I've compiled with gcc 3.4.6 and trying to start
> /usr/local/bin/X returns a segmentation fault and the
> message you've described below.
>
> I dont know if that could help but maybe you could
> try recompiling x11-fonts/xorg-fonts and see what
> it does ?
>
> Thanks in advance for letting me know once you've
> found a proper solution.. :)

Hello Etienne,

After bringing all 600+ ports on this workstation up to date taking  
advantage of the -P option to portupgrade, I was still getting the  
same message so I bit the bullet and reran portupgrade -rRfpy x11/xorg  
and maybe 12 hours later, Xorg all works beautifully plus I have local  
packages for upgrading my other machines.  I should have probably done  
that from the beginning but who knows, I'm vert happy and 7.2 and the  
localbase change, xorg 7.2 seems to have much better drivers.

Thanks to all who made this very very complex upgrade possible.   
Considering the more than 200 ports that were rebuilt with portupgrade  
-rRfpy x11/xorg with no errors, it is pretty remarkable.  THANKS.

ed
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Etienne
>
> --- eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>
>> I get:
>>    Fatal server error:
>>    could not open default font 'fixed'
>>
>> I have looked at:
>>    XFree86-4-fontDefaultBitmaps is not used with
>> xorg
>>    x11-fonts/font-alias is installed
>>    xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps is installed thinking that
>> it might sub the Default
>>    I have checked font.conf for correct path.
>>    Found a thread on Google but didn't find the
>> solution.
>>    xorgcfg gives the same error
>>    /etc/X11/xorg.conf Font Path is set to
>> /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/
>>
>> I upgraded with portupgrade -a -P so I guess I could
>> go back and
>> recompile all but first I would like to know if
>> anyone else has seen
>> this after the update and how they fixed it.
>> Something dumb I'm doing
>> I'm sure :(
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> ed
>>
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