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oscar

Member

From: Kiruna, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-13

Posts: 457

Screwed up the "fixed" font, and X wont start with

Hello everyone.

Somehow, after installing a font package (xserver-terminus-fonts), I somehow deleted the default font in X - "fixed", and now, X wont start.
I've tried to locate the file(s), but I haven't figured out where it is, what name it has, and reinstalling xorg hasn't helped either.

I'm out of ideas right now - how do I fix it?

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sh__

Member

Registered: 2005-07-19

Posts: 272

Re: Screwed up the "fixed" font, and X wont start with

Font 'fixed' is an alias that is usually defined in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias. I have this line in my fonts.alias:

fixed        -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1

You can check that the specified font exists with xfontsel. If it doesn't, you can edit the line to point to an existing font.

It is also possible that the font package you installed has messed up some configuration files...  :?

oscar

Member

From: Kiruna, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-13

Posts: 457

Re: Screwed up the "fixed" font, and X wont start with

I've tried using some other font as fixed, but instead of going either into graphical mode or straight back to the console, the screen turns black, and nothing more happens - and I have to reboot, every time

I hate computers

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Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Screwed up the "fixed" font, and X wont start with

 $ pacman -Qo  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias is owned by xorg 11R6.8.2-6

So reinstalling xorg could fix it.

oscar

Member

From: Kiruna, Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-13

Posts: 457

Re: Screwed up the "fixed" font, and X wont start with

Reinstalling xorg seems to have fixed the missing font.
Thanks, everyone!

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