On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:07:38PM -0500, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Bob Tennent wrote:
>
> > b) permissions on /tmp are wonky.
> >
> > 4 drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 4096 Feb 8 10:39 /tmp/
>
> Actually this is not wonky, it is 'sticky' and proper.
You missed part of the thread, and/or the quote backs are mixed up. He
was replying to a previous post to show that indeed the permissions
were correct.
> > > Another possibility may be that XF86Config is setup wrong.
> > > Needs to match init.d/xfs.
> >
> > Shouldn't be relevant; xfs fails as above before X is started.
> > And without using init.d/xfs.
> >
> > Anybody else have a suggestion?
>
> See RH bug 5093, which describes the fix procedure on a dying xfs
> [which is what is being described -- see a tail of
> /var/log/messages after trying to stop and then start xfs].
>
> Quick answer -- something has bunged up the fonts.dir (a
> post-install script has failed, etc.) -- fix it thus:
>
> as root:
>
> cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
> mkfontdir
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
>
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