Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Mark Sargent wrote:
> 
>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Sargent wrote:
>>>
>>>> ok, Paul, will give those suggestions a shot. BTW, how is my 
>>>> time-zone now..? Think I fixed it, although, it didn't seem 
>>>> broken..lol..cheers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Fixed :-)
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> after all those things, still the same result, Paul. Not looking good 
>> at all. May be time for a reinstall, albeit, FC3 this time. Anything 
>> before I do this..? Probably won't happen till the weekend, time 
>> permitting. Cheers.
>>
>> Mark Sargent.
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> Paul, Hacksaw, what do you make of Ian's suggestion of chmod'ing all the 
> font dir/files to 644..? Cheers.

Shouldn't do any harm, but I'd be surprised if that was the problem.

# chmod 644 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/*
should be enough, since that's where the problem font should be.

Paul.