Re: X font trouble

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths 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'm at a  loss for what to do to fix this, and any help would be appreciated.
> 
If memory serves, (and it doesn't always) this has to do with files in the
font path that are not font files. This makes mkfontdir fail. As this is
an issue of which version of the 3.3 X package you are running, it would
be nice to know two things when you ask questions about a package: the
version of the package, and the release of the Debian distribution you are
running.

Hope this helps.

Luck,

Dwarf
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