x server fatal font error
Austin
auji at cruzio.com
Fri Jul 23 02:40:38 UTC 2004
Michael Schwendt wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:38:46 -0700, Austin wrote:
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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'"
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>
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>More details needed. What XFree86 packages are installed?
>
> $ rpm -qa 'XFree86*'
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>Verify all of them:
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> $ rpm -qa 'XFree86*' | xargs rpm -V
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>Post your /etc/X11/fs config file, too.
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>Then still the fonts.dir and fonts.alias files might be damaged.
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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.
The /var/log/XFree86.0.log is huge so I won't post it unless it's
helpful... however I neglected to post the "Could not init font path
element unix/:7100, removing form list! message.
#############################################
#/etc/X11/fs/config
# Default font server configuration file for Red Hat Linux
#
# allow a max of 10 clients to connect to this font server
client-limit = 10
# when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one
clone-self = on
# alternate font servers for clients to use
#alternate-servers = foo:7101,bar:7102
# where to look for fonts
#
catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic,
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF,
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
,
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype
# in 12 points, decipoints
default-point-size = 120
# 100 x 100 and 75 x 75
default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100
# use lazy loading on 16 bit (usually Asian) fonts
deferglyphs = 16
# how to log errors
use-syslog = on
# don't listen to TCP ports by default for security reasons
no-listen = tcp
(END)
###############################################
# rpm -qa `Xfree86*` | xargs rpm -V
-bash: Xfree86*: command not found
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S.5....T c /usr/share/a2ps/afm/fonts.map
.......T
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/Office/Calc.dat
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/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/Office/Jobs.dat
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/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/Office/SFX.dat
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/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/Office/Security.dat
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/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/Office/Views.dat
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/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/UserProfile.dat
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/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/ucb/Configuration.dat
.......T
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/registry/cache/instance/org/openoffi
ce/ucb/Store.dat
S.5....T /usr/lib/openoffice/share/fonts/truetype/fonts.dir
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....L... /usr/lib/libglide3.so.3
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S.5....T c /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date-uuid
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.......T c /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/fonts.dir
S.5....T c /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
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.M5....T c /etc/xinetd.d/cups-lpd
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S.5....T /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/chrome/installed-chrome.txt
S.5....T c /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk
S.5....T c /etc/xinetd.d/talk
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