On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote:
I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the "unix/:7100" error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). -Al
I had the same error on my RH 8 re "cannot find default font fixed". As Mr Bandel said, your font named 'fixed' is missing.
Re-installing XFree86-base-fonts rpm fixed that for me.
Check your XFree86 logs though, when this happened to me /var/lib/xkb was gone too (I think the log actually mentioned "/etc/X11/xkb/compiled" which is a sym-link to /var/lib/xkb). Reinstalling the XFree86 rpm replaced that.
The bad news is that this kept reoccurring every few days on my system. Never did find out why. After a new install of RH 9 failed with hardware trouble warnings I installed Mandrake 9.1 and it's been fine ever since. Sorry I didn't have time to figure out the root of the problem. Maybe 'root' was the problem! :^)
IanS
I had this same problem (the error, not the solution proposed above), when i had improperly restored a RH9 install from backups, and the perms/ownership of alot of stuff was horked. Check the list archives, cause i'm pretty sure that i posted my solution. This was about 3 or 4 months back (like May).
Hmmm... I'll look there, cuz, well, I'm having a similar issue with gdm not starting properly after an upgrade via apt-get. I've worked around the problem by switching from the graphical greeter to the standard greeter, but I'd like to go back to the graphical greeter (well, not me, per se, but my better half...)
My problem seems different from Allan's in that I could execute startx from the command line and get an X session going. I don't think he's been able to do that.
Regards, Tim
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