Jonathan W. Smith wrote: >Yesterday, I upgraded from Red Hat Linux 8.0 to Red Hat Linux 9.0. Things >went relatively smoothly until a reboot of the machine resulted in an >inability of the X server to load. Initially this seemed to be the result of >incorrect monitor parameters. After I corrected those settings, I still >have a problem. > >I now get an error message that states, "No fonts found; this probably means >that the fontconfig library is not correctly configured. I would add that I >have /etc/fonts/fonts.conf; I lack a /etc/fonts/local.conf. Would I solve my >problem by copying the fonts path to local conf, i.e. chkfontpath -l > >local.conf, then edit local.conf so that it conforms to the XML format >illustrated by fonts.conf? > >Thanks in advance for consideration of my request. > >Best regards, > > > First, ensure that the X font server is set up correctly and is running. You may want to restart it. Try removing the .fonts.cache-1 file from your $HOME directory and see if this solves it. If not, login as root and do a rm -f `find /usr/share/fonts -name 'fonts.cache-1'` rm -f `find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -name 'fonts.cache-1'` (note that ` is different from ' ) Then look at your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file and look for the <dir> statements. Mine are <dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF</dir> <dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1</dir> <dir>~/.fonts</dir> but RedHat may look different. then run ( as root ) the directories shown in these statements except for the ~/.fonts. In my case fc-cache /usr/share/fonts fc-cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF fc-cache /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type RedHat probably has something different so change as necessary. I have no idea what causes this problem but this tends to solve it for me. Regards, fc-cache
