On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: > > I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each > > subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. > > Is not the "unix/:7100" error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that > > would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to > > ping various IP addresses (from level 3). > > -Al > > > > I had the same error on my RH 8 re "cannot find default font fixed". As > Mr Bandel said, your font named 'fixed' is missing. > > Re-installing XFree86-base-fonts rpm fixed that for me. > > Check your XFree86 logs though, when this happened to me /var/lib/xkb > was gone too (I think the log actually mentioned "/etc/X11/xkb/compiled" > which is a sym-link to /var/lib/xkb). Reinstalling the XFree86 rpm > replaced that. > > The bad news is that this kept reoccurring every few days on my system. > Never did find out why. After a new install of RH 9 failed with > hardware trouble warnings I installed Mandrake 9.1 and it's been fine > ever since. Sorry I didn't have time to figure out the root of the > problem. Maybe 'root' was the problem! :^) > > IanS
I had this same problem (the error, not the solution proposed above), when i had improperly restored a RH9 install from backups, and the perms/ownership of alot of stuff was horked. Check the list archives, cause i'm pretty sure that i posted my solution. This was about 3 or 4 months back (like May). -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
