SOS ** completely stucked with fvwm

[Imre Vida <Imre.Vida@anat.uni-freiburg.de>]

Hi,

i have already complained about problems starting fvwm.

Now, after restarting my system i am not able to start 
fvwm at all any more.



There are two error messeges about fvwm not being able 
to find a fontset:
 [FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: WARNING -- can't get fontset 'fixed', trying '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
 [FVWM][GetFontSetOrFixed]: ERROR -- can't get fontset '-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'

The xserver /xfontsel/ does know about such fonts so they are definitely not missing
(and the fontsever is running).


Originally i had xdm setup to start up the window manager.
In this case, after a blank window i got back the login window
(while any other window man e.g. icewm, sawfish or even gnome-session 
can be started without probs).
xdm.log says:
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
warning: process set to nice value 0 instead of -10 as requested


I tried to start fvwm from an already running icewm: 
xserver crashes and i'm back to login screen.

I also tried to start fvwm from an xterm only xsession:
i got the above errormsg about the fontset and nothing
else hapens interestingly before the restart this worked
despite the errormsgs.  
I tried this also as root - no difference. And run strace: i find 
the same erromsgs but nothing else that would give me a cue what 
is going on.

I hope some of you do have an idea what could the problem


imre