Hi all, I managed to royally mess up my MD 9.1 just before finishing my BitTorrent download and while waiting for my PowerPack to be shipped :-((
Somewhere I found an advice that all font names should have small letters in their names. As not all my fonts were working, I launched Krename and changed the caps to small letters, while waiting for BT, this was probably the stupidest I could have done! I noticed my fonts changing, but not improving. Today I had to go to Windows to do my bank payments. Afterwards I couldn't start X any longer. I found an X error reading i.a.: quote Using vt 7. Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list. Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. unquote Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw before upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything. I googled for the problem and found several answers, such as: *directory / is full: not in my case (> 3 Gb spare); *restart xfs server; I already tried that in runlevels 3 and 5. * reinstall XF86 packages: did that; didn't help. * I restored /etc/XF86Config from tarball on cd: didn't help * another answer said to delete reference to default font in XF86Config, but there wasn't any, except for an "other" Mandrake font server. In each case I restarted the xfs server and tried to start X, but it failed. In the last case I waited 10 to 15 minutes and saw an occasional attempt by X to start up (a few coloured lines showing or very fast falshing by of my last terminal screen), but nothing helped. I should very much appreciate it if somebody can advise me how to get back in my Mandrake with X. Thanks in advance. Best regards, =Dick Gevers= -- Registered Linux user # 309037 (forced to use Windows)
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