x server fatal font error

[Pete Nesbitt]

On July 22, 2004 07:40 pm, Austin wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:38:46 -0700, Austin wrote:
> >>>>When I boot RH 9, Linux 2.4.20-8 the x server will not start, and the
> >>>>monitor cycles on and off. There is a "Fatal server error: could not
> >>>>open default font 'fixed'"
> >>>>

<snip>

> >
> >More details needed. What XFree86 packages are installed?
> >
> >  $ rpm -qa 'XFree86*'
> >
> >Verify all of them:
> >
> >  $ rpm -qa 'XFree86*' | xargs rpm -V
> >
> >Post your /etc/X11/fs config file, too.
> >
> >Then still the fonts.dir and fonts.alias files might be damaged.
>
> The fonts.dir and fonts.alias files in their respective directories in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/*  look undamaged.  I assume the below
> "unscaled" is an argument" as it is not a file.

> # rpm -qa `Xfree86*` | xargs rpm -V
> -bash: Xfree86*: command not found


Austin,
I just read the thread and have a few comments.


> # rpm -qa `Xfree86*` | xargs rpm -V
> -bash: Xfree86*: command not found
That should be 'singe quotes' (lower case ") not `tic marks` 

And what did you mean by 
>  ...    I might
> have make some resolution changes yesterday before shutting down."

I'd agree with Stephen, find a backup and compare them, you may have set the 
resolution out of range for you video/monitor.
-- 
Pete Nesbitt, rhce