Hi luggers!! I tried out all the suggestions which were put forward by everybody. I also tried out everything that Namazu could find for me. Finally I tried something which was quite logical and the issue was resolved.
I looked into the file: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias there I found the rogue font 'fixed' , hurray !! There is a line in the file which specifies the default font 'fixed' as: fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso8859-1 I changed it to: fixed -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--7-70-75-75-c-50-iso8859-1 and restarted 'xfs' followed by 'startx' . Lo Behold !! It found the default font 'fixed'. Thus kapil regained back his lost GUI and they lived happily ever after... Cheers :-)) Kapil Karekar kapil at libretech.com On Saturday 22 March 2003 04:08, harsh wrote: > as root, > rm -rf /tmp/* /tmp/.* > reboot > > It will work for sure > harsh > > :) > > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Rajesh Deo wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Kapil Karekar wrote: > > > I have tried the following things but still the error persists: > > > 1. start xfs ... then do startx. > > > 2. Take the output from chkfontpath and add the line > > > "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" as another fontpath in > > > /etc/X11/XF86Config 3. Comment out: Fontpath "unix/:7100" in XF86Config > > > file > > > The 2nd and 3rd porcesses were obtained after searching the archives. > > > Still the same errors :-( > > > Does anybody know the solution? > > > Thanks !! > > > Kapil > > > > 1. Make sure xfs is running. #-> chkconfig --list xfs > > 2. Make sure required font rpms are installed. $-> rpm -qa | grep fonts > > You should atleast have XFree86-base-fonts package. > > 3. Check your keyboard layout and configure XF86Config properly. And keep > > that FontPath thing in there. Here are standard entries for XKB, > > Identifier "Keyboard0" > > Driver "keyboard" > > Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" > > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > > If you have a reasonably recent keyboard this should be about same. > > > > 4. If still the same problem, try starting bare X as, $-> X > > If it works, check what is X spawning after it starts, and why it > > doesn't see installed fonts. > > > > HTH, > > Rajesh -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
