had a working ltsp verion 3 system and just rebuilt it from scratch with
version
4.0.0 CDs. All seemed to be working OK until I used "yum" to update all
installed packages to the latest Fedora Core 1 RPMs. Many of these, I now
notice, were XFree86 named.
So now when starting either gdm, kdm, or xdm the client stations are not
displaying fonts, i.e. the letters describing or attached to any and all
icons/menus. All is just icons unless I start a terminal session, which
looks
normal.
Details of each display manager:
===== GDM GDM GDM GDM GDM GDM GDM ============
"gdm" Server: Only one login prompt line is presented in the center of a two
tone light blue screen with a large yellow flower in the low right hand side
of the
screen. No fonts are displayed (i.e. there is nothing to read) and no echo
occurs at attempted logins.
"gdm" Client: presents a one line login screen with a GNOME graphic. No
fonts
are displayed and no echo of characters occurs during login. One can log in
however if one is careful with entering a correct name, carriage return,
password, and second carriage return. One is then presented with a normal
looking Fedora GUI but with NO FONTS of any kind.
===== KDM KDM KDM KDM KDM KDM KDM ============
"kde" server: gui login screen appears as the 4.0.0 normal "Welcome to Linux
at k12ltsp" screen with the redhat circle of kids and Login, Password,
Session
Type, G, Clear, Menu, and Shutdown all available and displayed clearly.
"kde" client: the gray screen with a one central "X" displays for 5 seconds
or so
then the normal looking "Welcome to Linux at k12ltsp" login screen. Alas,
after
logging in the GUI has NO FONTS as described above under "gdm" with a
terminal window again functioning normally.
======= XDM XDM XDM XDM XDM XDM =========
"xdm" server: a login screen is presented with the message "Welcome to
k12ltsp.sbsdk12.org" along with an XFree 86 Logo and a Login and Password
prompt. Typing letters are reflected back at login after which a normal KDE
desktop is presented with all fonts/letters/descriptions as normal.
"xdm: client: the gray screen with a one central "X" displays for about 8
seconds then the same XFree 86 logo as the "xdm" server displays with the
typed login reflected to the user. Alas, when the KDE desktop appears there
are, again, NO FONTS at all.
==== End of symptom descriptions =========
I would like to have the nice "Welcome to Linux at k12ltsp" screen with the
redhat circle of kids at login with the followon desktop having fonts (i.e.
letters)
as one would expect. It would also be nice to not have the 5-8 second gray
screen with central "X" delay in getting to the GUI login.
Thank for any suggestions or help offered.
"Experience is not what happens to you, it
is what you do with what happens to you"
-- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
Ashe Coutts ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
805.963.7751 Ext 260
Fax 805.884.1557
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