Hi, AKH.
You're probably right. I was starting by double-clicking X11, and
getting the error message from Console. Someone told me to try
starting from Terminal, which I did, and got a subsequent message in
Terminal:
after the same "could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
fonts/CID/, removing from list!"
came:
..
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
..
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
over and over til I terminated.
But I don't think it's xinitrc, because after fooling with it (and
the whole situation ) A LOT over months with no result, I got mad and
threw ~/xinitrc away. Repeatedly. (There are many other xinitrcs all
over the place I could copy to start over.) Also threw away the app
icons to XDarwin and X11 away. I didn't know that left behind a
bunch of esoteric files.
I just love admitting to ignorance and temper.
Thank you, and Martin Costabel who also posted, for your trouble and
time. Maybe what I need to know is what to get rid of to start fresh.
Jody
On Aug 24, 2005, at 5:07 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
Jody Steel wrote:
Hi, new to list, but have been using FINK off and on for a while.
Had XFree86 running, but some time back it broke, with the error
message
"Could not init font path element " listed CID
We moved, so I put off dealing with it. Hoped Mac OS 10.4 would
fix it, but no luck, same error message.
After looking at 100's of pages, mostly with no suggestions, but
a few with various totally dissimilar suggestions, I'm stumped.
I'm wary of trying most of the suggestions, afraid I'll make it
worse. For one thing, flavors of X11 running on different
platforms etc. use different config files than Mac, in different
places, different names.
It looks to me as though something may be wrong with that folder,
it has 2 config type files, but no fonts in it.
Reinstalled twice from the 10.4 disc, no success. Does anybody
know what should be done?
Thanks,
Jody
I don't think that's the actual failure (which is why we never
documented it as such)--I've been getting that same message for a
while on several XFree86 and X.org versions on both of my Macs but
have no trouble.
If the failure mode is such that you don't get an error message and
XFree86 just quits, the problem could well be localized to
your .xinitrc.
--AKH
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