rawhide->fc5; X won't start

[sean]

Ray Strode wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Ray Strode wrote:
>>> Hi, 
>>>
>>>> OK, so no one else sees this.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions as to how to diagnose this? Any way to get more verbose 
>>>> or clearer error messages?
>>> If you run fc-cache -f from your user account does your problem go away?
>>>
>>> --Ray
>>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, but...(:
>>
>> Here's the console message from trying kde.
>>
>>> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>>> xset:  bad font path element (#76), possible causes are:
>>>     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>>>     Directory missing fonts.dir
>>>     Incorrect font server address or syntax
>>> startkde: Starting up...
>>> DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-2482' to 'kded'
>>> startkde: Shutting down...
>>> klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
>>>
> What if you manually add some font paths to your Xorg.conf
> Try adding some of the ones in 
> /usr/share/X11/fonts/
> and /usr/share/fonts
> 
> --Ray
> 

Great idea, but no joy.

Same result.

I changed xorg.conf to:

> Section "Files"
> 
> #
> #	FontPath     "unix/:7100"
>   FontPath  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" 
>   FontPath  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
>   FontPath  "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"  
> 
> EndSection

And, FWIW,
> find /usr/share/X11/fonts -name fonts.dir
> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir
> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/fonts.dir
> /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir
> /usr/share/X11/fonts/TTF/fonts.dir
> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir

Xorg.0.log shows no errors.

This is really frustrating. I no longer believe this a font issue. But I 
can't figure out how to get some log and error messages that show what's 
happening.

sean