On Thursday 03 Jan 2002 02:17, Oden Eriksson wrote: > On Thursdayen den 3 January 2002 03.39, Yura Gusev wrote: > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs > > daemon --check xfs xfs -daemon -droppriv -user xfs > > ------------------ > > man xfs > > -droppriv > > If specified, xfs will attempt to run as user and > > group xfs (unless the -user option is used). > > -user username > > This is equivalent to -droppriv except that xfs will run as > > user username. > > ------------------- > > So you can remove -user xfs from the file. > > Not very important but anyway FYI. > > Yes I just noticed that too since X suddenly stopped working... > > xfs was running fine, no errors, the unix socket was there, but still X > would not start because of "can't find fixed font" (or something like > that). > > Solution; reinstall: > > XFree86-libs-4.1.0-22mdk > XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0-22mdk > XFree86-ISO8859-2-Type1-fonts-1.0-16mdk > XFree86-server-4.1.0-22mdk > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.1.0-22mdk > XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-22mdk > XFree86-devel-4.1.0-22mdk > XFree86-4.1.0-22mdk > fonts-ttf-west_european-1.3-9mdk > fonts-ttf-decoratives-1.3-9mdk > > Wierd, eehh ?
Why do we still use xfs on Mandrake? I thought it was obsolete after XFree 4.1. I removed it from my 8.1 box and have the font paths in XFree86.Config-4. It works great. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586 Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Uptime 18 hours 53 minutes. ------------------------------------------------------------------
