Hoary upgrade to Breezy breaks X on Mac

Michael Moore stuporglue at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 11:46:31 CDT 2005


> > When GDM dies each time, if I can log in and stop it, then try to
> > start X manually, it crashes nicely with this output:
> > [...]
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed';
> > the X server's font paths might be misconfigured, remote font server(s)
> > may be unreachable, and/or local fonts may not be installed or are not
> > configured correctly.
> 
> Ensure that you have the ubuntu-desktop package installed, and if so, please
> file this in Bugzilla as an upgrade failure.

Looks like ubuntu-desktop was gone since I removed openoffice.org. I
re-installed ubuntu-desktop, but it didn't re-install x-window-system.
After I re-installed that, it works fine again.

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