Gentoo wrote:
> After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the
> following error from startx:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> I have numerous fonts in my xorg.conf FontPath, as near as I can tell.
> I've had this problem with both radeon and vesa drivers.  Any help
> appreciated.    g

Make sure you've got /usr/share/fonts/misc listed in xorg.conf. Make
sure /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.5 does not exist (1.4 is fine).

Remerge font-alias, encodings, font-misc-misc, font-cursor-misc.

Thanks,
Donnie