error xserver

Michael C. Shultz ringworm01 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 15 08:51:05 PST 2005


On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:46 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:03 am, Gert Cuykens wrote:
> > error xserver cant find default font 'fixed'
> >
> > So what does your magical glass bowl tell you about this error and
> > how to fix it so i can startup my xserver again.
>
> Tried to warn you to leave the xorg stuff alone. Reinstall the fonts
> you removed earlier:
>
> xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.7.0 dir -=>
> /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-100dpi xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.7.0 dir
> -=> /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-75dpi
>
> should do it, if not just make install /usr/ports/x11/xorg and then
> leave xorg stuff alone.
>
> -Mike

Just one other note, If you have been upgrading with portmanager
you should have either /usr/ports/packages/All/xorg-6.8.1.tbz or
/usr/ports/x11/xorg/xorg-6.8.1.tbz which means you can do 
pkg_add /usr/ports/packages/All/xorg-6.8.1.tbz 
or  /usr/ports/x11/xorg/xorg-6.8.1.tbz and quickly recover everything 
instead of rebuilding.

-Mike



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