X font trouble

1997-10-10 Thread I Brake for Moths
I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx': failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't

Re: X font trouble

1997-10-10 Thread Dale Harrison
I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx': failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect:

Re: X font trouble

1997-10-10 Thread I Brake for Moths
I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe that this is because the .gz extension is preventing it from recognizing the font

Re: X font trouble

1997-10-10 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: I was beginning to suspect that the .gz might be the problem when I discovered that 'mkfontdir' is actually NOT working. It just returns without complaint, but it does not write a fonts.dir file. I believe that this is because the .gz

Re: X font trouble

1997-10-10 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, I Brake for Moths wrote: I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx': failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' Fatal server error: could not open default