rawhide->fc5; X won't start

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Thu Mar 30 20:32:38 UTC 2006


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




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