The "no font fixed" problem

luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Fri Sep 24 07:55:00 GMT 2004


On 21 Sep, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>  On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:
>  
> > The problem with X not running because of the error "no font 'fixed'"
> > has been around so long that some months ago a I scripted a post-install
>  
>  I could provide new packages where the remounting of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>  is not done anymore but the list files are autogenerated on postinstall. 
>  
>  It works on binmode (as expected) but I was not able to get hands on a clean
>  textmode install to test.
>  
>  bye
>  	ago

Many thanks!  Following your release of the new xorg-x11-{fonts,xwin}-6.8.1.0-2
package, I'd like to report that X worked 1st time after a fresh
install.

Many thanks, Alexander,

luke



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