Re: SOS ** completely stucked with fvwm
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 02:53:26PM +0200, Imre Vida wrote:
> 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
I've spent most of the last three days trying to get some
sort of X thing working after installing woody from CDs.
I finished up by removing .fvwm/fvwm2rc and .xinitrc and
it works well enough for me now. But I've learnt to be
satisfied with very little that really works ;)
David
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