On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:47:44 -0000
"Dick Gevers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> >> Restoring all fonts from tarballs I had put on cdrw in preparation
> >> for upgrading to 9.2 didn't help anything.
> >
> >Could be the perms are wrong on the fonts that you "restored", font
> >server cannot read them. Make sure dirs are searchable, ie. drx-rx-r
> >(I think).
>
> That seems out of the question, because I had tarred them to local
> drive and then burnt them to cdrw, copied the tarballs back to HD and
> extracted the fonts. Tar is notorious for keeping permissions okay.
It's worth checking, no?
> >> I googled for the problem and found several answers, such as:
> >> *directory / is full: not in my case (> 3 Gb spare);
> >> *restart xfs server; I already tried that in runlevels 3 and 5; no
> >> difference.
> >> * reinstall all XF86 packages: did that; didn't help.
> >> * I restored /etc/XF86Config from tarball on cd: didn't help.
> >> * another answer said to delete reference to default font in
> >> XF86Config, but there wasn't any, except for an "other" Mandrake
> >font > server.
> >
> >Yeah, since it can't find the referenced path, it's automatically
> >deleting it from your config file.
>
> Sorry, what do you imply by that. What should (could) I do with this
> information? I am using Linux only since February, so I am not sure
> where this can help me.
Just an observation.
> >> In each case I restarted the xfs server and tried to start X, but
> >it > failed. In the last case I waited 10 to 15 minutes and saw an
> >> occasional attempt by X to start up (a few coloured lines showing
> >or > very fast flashing by of my last terminal screen), but nothing
> >> helped. In these cases no login prompt could be reached, nor the
> >> kernel messages.
> >
> >Maybe post the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log and we can see if
> >there are any further clues as to what is causing the error.
>
> See below.
>
> >> I should very much appreciate it if somebody can advise me how to
> >get > back in my Mandrake with X.
> >>
> >> { This message was previously posted to the newbie list, but
> >> apparently nobody knew how to help me }
> >>
> >> Personally I don't know any solution anymore, except reinstalling.
> >> But I hope somebody has an easier solution.
> >
> >In XF86Config-4, try commenting out the line:
> >
> > Load "type1"
>
> Yes, I did some more googling and found one other similar piece of
> advice, so I commented out a line reading Load unix/:-1 and (as per
> that advice) deleted all similar looking file from /tmp and
> /home/dvg/tmp.
> The result was the same as before, though.
Yeah, if you see in the log, it's loading the type 1 fonts without error
anyway.
> >which is, IIRC, where X tries to load the default XFS fonts. AFAIK,
> >XFS really isn't even necessary now with Freetype handling font
> >rendering.
> >
> >These are wiiiiiiiild guesses, but hey, you never know. Best of luck.
>
> Thanks a bunch, Haywire. I hope somebody knows a solution.
>
I'm betting on the fontpath not being searchable (ie. wrong perms), but
I'm no Xpert;-)
What are the fontpaths listed in your XF86Config-4 and what are the
perms on those directories?
>
> Below is /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
> ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
> (II) Loading font Type1
> (II) Loading font CID
> (II) LoadModule: "freetype"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
> (II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
> compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 2.0.2
> Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
> ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
> (II) Loading font FreeType
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