Hi luggers!!
I tried out all the suggestions which were put forward by everybody. I also tried out everything that Namazu could find for me. Finally I tried something which was quite logical and the issue was resolved.
I looked into the file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias
there I found the rogue font 'fixed' , hurray !!
There is a line in the file which specifies the default font 'fixed' as: fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1
I changed it to: fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-1
and restarted 'xfs' followed by 'startx' .
Lo Behold !! It found the default font 'fixed'. Thus kapil regained back his lost GUI and they lived happily ever after...
Cheers :-)) Kapil Karekar kapil at libretech.com
On Saturday 22 March 2003 04:08, harsh wrote:
as root, rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.* reboot
It will work for sure harsh
:)
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Rajesh Deo wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kapil Karekar wrote:
I have tried the following things but still the error persists:
- start xfs ... then do startx.
- Take the output from chkfontpath and add the line
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" as another fontpath in /etc/X11/XF86Config 3. Comment out: Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config file The 2nd and 3rd porcesses were obtained after searching the archives. Still the same errors :-( Does anybody know the solution? Thanks !! Kapil
- Make sure xfs is running. #-> chkconfig --list xfs
- Make sure required font rpms are installed. $-> rpm -qa | grep fonts You should atleast have XFree86-base-fonts package.
- Check your keyboard layout and configure XF86Config properly. And keep
that FontPath thing in there. Here are standard entries for XKB, Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" Option "XkbLayout" "us" If you have a reasonably recent keyboard this should be about same.
- If still the same problem, try starting bare X as, $-> X If it works, check what is X spawning after it starts, and why it doesn't see installed fonts.
HTH, Rajesh