On 30 Apr, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2001 11:45, Laurent Duperval wrote:
>> On 30 Apr, Praedor Tempus wrote:
>> > When it crashes xfs, if you have a working console app (like xterm?
>> > konsole?) start one and login as superuser. Then do "/etc/xinit.d/xfs
>> > restart". If you cannot do this, try logging into a new session by doing
>> > Ctrl-Alt-F2, log in, go to superuser and do what I just wrote
>> > above...restart xfs.
>>
>> Ok, I had that going already.
>>
>> > Whenever I have run into problems with xfs crashing, it has invariably
>> > been because it "cannot find font: misc fixed" for something along that
>> > line. This usually was associated with my using antialiased fonts.
>>
>> Ok, how do I fix that?
> [...]
>
> Hmpf. IS that the error you get? I believe it is "cannot find font fixed:
> misc"
>
Font specified in font.properties not found
[--symbol-medium-r-normal--*-%d-*-*-p-*-adobe-fontspecific]
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.InternalError: java/langNullPointerException
at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.pSetFont(Native Method)
at sun.awt.motif.X11Graphics.setFont(X11Graphics.java:227)
at java.awt.Component.getGraphics(Component.java:1691)
at javax.swing.JComponent.getGraphics(JComponent.java:1086)
<more stack traces>
.
.
.
That's what I get. I get a whole lot of the font.properties error then I
start getting the NullPointerException's.
> As for fixing it...I was never able to - I ended up changing my fonts around
> in apps. You could try to load the font placed up for use in the expert
> group recently by akar 'th 'orrible:
>
> http://www.users.bigpond.com/trader2001
>
> It is a fixed-width font that MAY fix your problem. Perhaps someone in the
> list can offer more specifics on fixing the problem (reording the font
> directories, etc).
Well, I'll try it to see.
L
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