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 > > > > b i b i n t . v a r g h e s e > > s t e v e n s i n s t i t u t e o f t e c h n o l o g y > > b v a r g h e s @ s t e v e n s - t e c h . e d u > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
