Re: X font trouble
I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I
discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns
without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe
that this is because the .gz extension is preventing it from recognizing
the font files. Easy enough to test, but I don't have access to my Linux
box right now . . . As is, the xfnt*.deb installation produces a
fonts.dir that refers to the font files using the .gz extension.
I am using XFree86. Does anyone know whether XFree86 recently changed to
support gzipped font files, so that I might have an out-of-date version?
Thanks,
Rikki Hall
On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Dale Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has
> > broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx':
> >
> > failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > _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.
> >
> > I found a mention of the "could not open default font 'fixed'" error in
> > the man pages, and it said that this means that there is an invalid entry
> > in the font path. However, the path does exist, and I ran 'mkfontdir' to
> > be sure that fonts.dir exists and is in order. root is group and owner
> > for all relevant files and directories, and the permissions are world
> > read, world execute if a directory.
>
> I had the same problem when I installed MetroLink's MetroX server. It
> seems that it [this could be different in your case] required the fonts in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* to be .Z rather than .gz, as shipped with
> Debian.
>
> This could be a MetroX peculiarity. Are you using XFree86 or some other X
> server?
>
> Can anyone offer a better solution? This one's kinda bodgy.. :)
>
> D.
>
>
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