[LUNI] XFree86 Font problems

[Demetri Mouratis]

I had a similar problem on a RH 7.1 box.  Indeed the problem was that xfs
was not running.  I believe I was able to fix my problem buy inserting a
call to xfs at the my .xinitrc file.
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Robert C. Ramsdell wrote:

> I did an upgrade of my Debian 'Woody system the other day.  It upgraded me
> to Xfree86 4.1.0.1fine (and my XF86Config-4 file was not altered).
> 
> Now X will not start up.  Looking at the log file, all lookse well until it
> tries to process fonts, and I see the following lines:
> 
> Could not init font path element unix:/7100, removing from list!
> 
> Fata server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> I tried commenting out the line in XF86Config-4 that points to unix:/7100,
> to no avail.  This evidently is pointing to the default font server on port
> 7100.
> 
> Looking at the Debian mailing lists I found two suggestions that did not
> work:
> 
> (1) Deleting the quote marks in the file
> /etc/X11/xsession.d/99xfree86-common-start.  This file had no qoutes in it.
> (2) running xmakefontdir on my font directories.  This seemed to run fine,
> but made no difference.
> 
> One suggestion I did not try was to remove and re-install xfonts-base.  I
> was leery of this because removing the package would create dependency
> problems.
> 
> I also checked the XFree86 mail archives, but found less help.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this problem and know of a solution or place to look?
> In a related question, should a font server such as xfs be running?
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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