I can't answer why it's happening, but I've thought that it would be a
good idea to establish some kind of semi-comprehensive FAQ on basic
problems such as this one, and then to point users to this faq (presumably
on xfree86.org) as a preliminary measure in their crash messages. The
crash message should tell them that if it can't be resolved quickly that
way, then they should mail this list. That would probably kill all
these 'fixed font' errors. As far as I know, however, the FAQ
that was on xfree86.org was taken down, and there is no official
substitute as of yet.
Jesse
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
Question for the list. Why is this happening? Why do we get
several posts a day about this? Is some configuration utility
creating XF86Config files without font paths? Who is it that's
doing this? Of the config files I've looked at, these have
all been RedHat systems. Should this be a bug filed against
RedHat? If distributions are going to leave font paths out
of the XF86Config, they should be making sure that a font
server is running. We shouldn't be getting these bugs.
Mark.
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Bibin T. Varghese wrote:
Hi,
I am very new to the XWindows environment and it has crashed
on me. Every time I try to get in with the startx command it tells me
it has crashed and says to report to this email address. I am sending
the log file as well. Please let me know if you can help. Thanks.
_Bibin
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