Re: SOS ** completely stucked with fvwm
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 14:30:22 +0200
David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
> 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][GetFontSetOrFi
> > xed]: 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 never got fvwm to work with anything - had suse,RH,MDK,turbolinux and
others on my machine.
Usually it just crashes the x-server.
I never really tried too hard though - there are a lot of alternatives.
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