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Font installation broke access to X server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Shepard)
Mon Nov 23 12:37:28 1998
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 01:35:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
Reply-To: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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I used the Applixware font installer to install a TrueType font. xfstt is
running so the ttfont directory is visible to X and some apps.
After going through the font installation as 'root', I exited X, switched
virtual terminals back to me as a user, and tried to start X. The attempts
fail (both as a user and as root) because the default font, 'fixed' can no
longer be found.
Here's what comes to the screen with the attempt:
(--) SVGA: RIVA128: Using hardware cursor
(--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles
(--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy
(--) SVGA: XAA: Indirect CPU to screen color expansion (imagetext, polytext)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x128 areas for pixmap caching
(--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and non-transparent stipples
(--) SVGA: XAA: Horizontal and vertical lines and segments
System: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -xkm -m
us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:" -emp "> " -eml
"Errors
from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server" keymap/xfree86
compiled/xfree86.xkm'failed to set default font path
'/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
Could someone please tell me how to fix this problem -- quickly? I tried
editing /home/rshepard/.Xresources to replace the default "fixed" with
another font name (copied from the section immediately below it), but
without success.
And I have a bunch of stuff which must get out to clients today!
Thanks,
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
2404 SW 22nd Street
Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 U.S.A.
+ 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax)
rshepard@appl-ecosys.com
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