Hey, Xfree since version 4.0 (correct me if I'm wrong on this) can work without the font server and load the fonts directly from the disc. But by default the configuration still intends the xfs to supply it with fonts. You can tell X to load fonts directly instead of using the xfont server by specifying the fonts paths in /etc/X11/XF86Config. To get a list of these font paths you can take a look at /etc/X11/fs/config file.
Like raghu said, you could try restarting the server, on redhat it would be like # service xfs restart Or # /etc/init.d/xfs restart This should (hopefully) get things right for you. Uday K Verma -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.Raghuram Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 01:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIH]Unable to start KDE. On Monday 29 Mar 2004 2:49 pm, Narendra Nath S wrote: > Hi > > Well, I managed to change to text mode booting by changing the > id:5:initdefault to id:3:initdefault in /etc/inittab > > But when I gave the command redhat-config-xfree86, it gave me this > error (the last 2 lines): > > ***** > Could not init font path unix/:7100, removing from list Fatal server > error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > ***** This happened a lot of times to me on my Celeron RH box. X would be ok one moment and crap out the very next day complaining that it could not find the font 'fixed'. Try stopping and restarting the Xfontserver. Don't remember the exact commands, though ( I use Slackware now) . If that doesn't work, remove the line 'unix/:7100' in XF86Config , and instead, specify the full path to the fonts , which is /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ .My idea was to let X find whatever fonts it wanted to find and see what happens. This trick worked. I have seen this work on my friends' boxes too. Rh's broken init scripts causing this ?? > If required I can send the complete error log (it is quite large) > > What should I do now > > > Regards > --- > Narendra Nath S. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux > tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo > technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > linux-india-help mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
