font problem after upgrade to 7.2

Eric W. Bates ericx at vineyard.net
Thu Jun 7 16:35:07 UTC 2007


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I'm getting the error:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.2

is installed.

I have run:

portupgrade -f fonts*

on the off chance that things were out of order somehow.

Which fonts are considered 'fixed' from the xserver's point of view? I
have never noticed anything in xorg.conf that refers to 'fixed'.

There are 411 files in my /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc directory.

In comparing the contents of misc with an older xorg install I noticed
that fonts.alias and fonts.cache-1 are both missing from all fonts
directories. Shouldn't fc-cache create those files?  I have run fc-cache
multiple times (so have the various install scripts). I have reinstalled
 fontconfig.

What is the xserver actually looking for when it wants 'fixed?'

Thanks for your time.

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Eric W. Bates
ericx at vineyard.net
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