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=

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