x server fatal font error

[Austin]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:01:37 -0700, Austin wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>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'"
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>>I can get to XF86Config but I've mucked around with the font paths here 
>>before with no luck. Does any anyone know how to fix this problem 
>>without reinstalling Linux?
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>Not enough information to decide on what has been damaged.
>Is the font server (xfs) running?  service xfs status
>If not, enable it and start it before you try to start X again.
>(chkconfig xfs on ; service xfs start)
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Yes it is.
ps -ef | grep xfs
xfs   3661   1   0   10:12 ? 00:00:00 [xfs]

There is no /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 backup.  It was working fine 
yesterday, and when i booted this morning x would not come up.  I might 
have make some resolution changes yesterday before shutting down.  " rpm 
-qa --last | tac | tail" shows nothing.

Thank you.

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