Hi Haywire, others, Thanks for your answer:
On Tuesday, 28 October 2003 at 16:56 h, HaywireMac wrote about "Re: [expert] Fatal server error strikes": >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? Indeed! You're quite right, they were not like they had been before I tarred them (dunno why). So I restored all permissions with big hopes this would do it. But no, I'm still not able to get X running. My hope is somebody on this list 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? These are okay now. But still no go. Thanks beforehand for any hints. Much appreciated! Regards, =Dick Gevers= -- Registered Linux user 309037 (suffering in Windows).
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