X.org: Fatal server error [Solved]

[Harald Weis]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:44:13PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote:
 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
 
I've learned two lessons.

1. As a constant user of portupgrade since ages, this time,
before and after the xorg-upgrade procedure, I have carelessly
omitted the `-R' option. No wonder that required packages
were missing.

2. The `pkg_info -L' check does not certify that the file is
actually in its place: between two checks I have removed all
the empty fontfiles in misc/, thereby getting rid again of 
fonts.alias as well :-( and forgot about it.
Now I know that the server is indeed looking first for
the `fixed' line in fonts.alias. If he does not find it,
he complains no matter how many fixed fonts are stored in misc/.

The fact that misc/ and three other directories in that machine
were only populated with a large number of empty fontfiles
remains weird though.

Thanks again for every reply, on-list and off-list.

HW
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FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Feb 27 22:56:09 UTC 2007