On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Peter Lesterhuis <peterlesterhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > On one of my machines I did an upgrade from f8 to f9. > After rebooting and logging in the new desktop background appears but > without the usual icons (user's home, Trash, computer, etc). > When I try to start an application nothing happens. When I start firefox > from the command line I get this error: > > "$firefox > The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadName (named > color or font does not exist)'. > (Details: serial 862 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0) > (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that > is, you will receive an error a while after causing it. > To debug your program, run in with the --sync command line option to change > this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if > you break on the gdk-x-error() function.)" > > When I try to start other applications I get similar errors. > The X-server is running. Dmesg or /var/log/messages don't give me any clues. > Can anyone help me with this? An alternate solution to this is to turn off xfs in your services. It seems that xfs running before X starts causes this error which affects a lot of applications. xfs is not needed in a lot of situations so things should run fine without it. The issue is being tracked in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430416 /Mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
