Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

[Mark Sargent]

Hacksaw wrote:

>> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> could not open default font 'fixed'
>>   
>
>
> This is a big problem. X doesn't like to do anything without "fixed". 
> It pines for it's little bitmap buddy.
>
> Is xfs actually running on your machine? No xfs, no fixed, no X.
>
> And did anyone else have their xfs start up script in /etc/init.d get 
> toasted?
>
>  
>
Hi All,

okay, googling shows xfs as a font server. That makes sense, of some 
sort. Where/how would I check for this, if it's running.? Cheers.

Here is the script from /etc/init.d for xfs,

#!/bin/bash
#
# xfs:       Starts the X Font Server
#
# Version:      @(#) /etc/init.d/xfs 2.0
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
# description: Starts and stops the X Font Server at boot time and 
shutdown. \
#              It also takes care of (re-)generating font lists.
#
# processname: xfs
# config: /etc/X11/fs/config
# hide: true

# Source function library.
export LANG=C
. /etc/init.d/functions

umask 133

prog=xfs

# Make sure that xfs has "/" as the CWD
cd /

buildfontlist() {
  pushd . &> /dev/null
  for d in $(/usr/sbin/chkfontpath --list | cut -f 2 -d ':' | sort | 
uniq) ;do
     if [ -d "$d" ]; then
        cd "$d"
        # Check if we need to rerun mkfontdir
        REGEN_FONTS_DIR=no
        if ! [ -e fonts.dir ]; then
           REGEN_FONTS_DIR=yes
        elif [ -n "$(find . -type f -cnewer fonts.dir -not -name 
'fonts.cache*')" ];then
           REGEN_FONTS_DIR=yes
        fi
        if [ "$REGEN_FONTS_DIR" = "yes" ]; then
           rm -f fonts.dir
           if ls | grep -iqs '\.tt[cf]$' ; then
              # TrueType fonts found, generate fonts.scale and fonts.dir
              ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale && mkfontdir . &>/dev/null
           fi
           if ls | grep -iqs '\.ot[cf]$' ; then
              # Opentype fonts found, generate fonts.scale and fonts.dir
              mkfontscale . && mkfontdir . &>/dev/null
           fi
           if ls |grep -Eiqsv 
'(^fonts\.(scale|alias|cache.*)$|.+(\.[ot]t[cf]|dir)$)' ; then
              # This directory contains non-TrueType/non-Opentype fonts
              mkfontdir . &>/dev/null
           fi
        fi
     fi
  done
  # Recreating fonts.dir files above may result in stale fonts.cache-1
  # files since the directory mtimes change, so we run fc-cache to
  # update any necessary fonts.cache files.
  FC_CACHE=/usr/bin/fc-cache
  if [ "$REGEN_FONTS_DIR" = "yes" -a -x "$FC_CACHE" ] ; then
     # fc-cache 1.0.2 as included in Red Hat Linux 8.0 will SEGV when 
executed
     # by this initscript, so we don't run fc-cache for version 1.0.2 since
     # even if fc-cache were fixed, we can't guarantee the user would 
have the
     # fixed version installed.  Yes, this is an ugly, but necessary 
hack for
     # the time being.
     #[ $FC_CACHE --version 2>&1 | grep -q '1\.0\.2' ] ||
     HOME=/ "$FC_CACHE"
  fi
  popd &> /dev/null
}

start() {
     echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
     [ -x /usr/sbin/chkfontpath ] && buildfontlist
     rm -fr /tmp/.font-unix
     daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon
     ret=$?
     [ $ret -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/xfs
     echo
     return $ret
}  
stop() {
  echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
  killproc xfs
  ret=$?
  [ $ret -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/xfs
  echo
  return $ret
}  
rhstatus() {
  status xfs
}  
reload() {
  if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/xfs ]; then
     echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
     [ -x /usr/sbin/chkfontpath ] && buildfontlist
     killproc xfs -USR1
     ret=$?
     echo
     return $ret
  else
     stop
     start
  fi
}

restart() {
  echo $"Restarting $prog:"
  stop
  start
}

case "$1" in
 start)
     start
   ;;
 stop)
     stop
   ;;
 restart)
   restart
   ;;
 reload)
     reload
   ;;
 condrestart)
     [ -f /var/lock/subsys/xfs ] && reload || :
   ;;
 status)
     rhstatus
   ;;
 *)
   echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|status|restart|reload|condrestart}"
   exit 1
esac

exit $?


I have no idea whether it's right or not. Cheers, again.

Mark Sargent.