Better or another answer:
Check your /etc/hosts file and make sure that your machine can talk to
itself.
On Friday 02 February 2001 15:47, you wrote:
> Gary Bond wrote:
> > --- "Altoine B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Either you go to a mandrake mirror and download and
> > > install the package
> > > or you can search www.rpmfind.net for the package
> > > and download it that
> > > way. These are the choices. I hope that this is
> > > helpful?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > -- Al
> >
> > Thanks Al
> > Ifound the M4 package and downloaded it. Then I
> > switched to root on console mode. Did the rpm test
> > came out OK. Did the rpm install no apparent problems.
> > Did the rebuilddb OK. Did the update-menus OK. Now I
> > have no Xwindows at all. I get a "fatal server error
> > could not open default font 'fixed'. What do I do now?
> >
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> You have to manually start and stop xfs. But if you want a quick hack.
> Open up XF86Config-4 with your favorite editor and go to the line
> pointing to your font path. unmark by putting # in front of the FontPath
> unix/:-1 like this
>
> # FontPath "unix/:-1"
>
> The cool thing about this hack is that it forces the drakfont (I think
> that is correct) to point to the new fonts directory (more than likely,
> it wrote over some application font path conf files). You can reboot and
> it will still work. After rebooting, you can remove the "#" comment from
> XF86Config-4. The other way, I haven't tried first but was irrelevant
> after doing the above option but I got this from a netscape forum.
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
>
> This has something to do with the X Font server (xfs) others and myself
> conjecture. Try this one first before the other one, as I am dying to
> know if that way really works. But if you look at the methods behind the
> two...
> they both target the X Font Server and do a disable-then-enable
> approach. Possible bug.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Al
>
> To manually start and stop your service use these two commands:
