On Tuesday 29 June 2004 16:16, Vinayak Belamkar wrote: > Ensured that already, being a newbie I had a tough time getting only the > console terminal to start up, but after I had the terminal, I started all > the services just in case xfs maybe dependent on some other > service...should I have done that or not? > When the services are being started it shows: > Starting xfs [OK] > so I suppose xfs has started, and also to be on the safer side, as a root > issued the foll command, > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart > everything's fine, but on issuing startx, the same error of "fixed" font > can be seen. > > In short, been there done that. > Then try to replace FontPath "unix/:7100" with some font directories on your machine, e.g. FontPath "/usr/share/fonts" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" Also, make sure that each of these dirs contains "fonts.dir" file, and, optionally, fonts.scale and encodings.dir files. If server still crashes, this is something serious, and, unfortunately, I cannot help. I'm the same user as you are. Otherwise, this is a problem with a font server, for example, it crashes some time after start. Maybe your installed application registered some fonts that are killing font server... _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
