On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 02:04:30PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: >David Dawes writes: > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 05:21:43PM +0200, Egbert Eich wrote: > > > > >Whenever the server terminates with a FatalError() it tells the user > > >to send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >This creates an enormous amount of traffic here even if it is a user > > >problem has been answered several times already - like our all time > > >favourite "cannot find font 'fixed'". > > > > My conclusion from this is that the XFree86 server should handle this > > condition better. I thought that using the 'builtin' font stuff might > > have been a good way to do that, but unfortunately Juliusz has found > > that it's going to require more time/work than expected. > > > >This will only reduce the number of bug reports not eliminate it. >Not all applications have a fallback heuristic all the way down to >the 'fixed' font. If only this font is available many applications >will refuse to run with an XRequest error on font or an even less >conclusive error messages. This will then be posted here and it will >be much harder to track down.
Has anyone investigated the root cause of why there is no fixed font in the first place -- like why the font server isn't running? Was it never started (a vendor-specific configuration problem), or did it crash (a robustness problem with xfs)? David -- David Dawes Founder/committer/developer The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
