Hi Russell, was going to mail you this morning to see how it was all
going...
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 10:48, Russell Davie wrote:
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
>
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
right, so you don't have a font server. That's not so bad, you don't
actually need one.
Try putting something like:
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
in the "Files" section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (Files will probably be
the first section in the file)
Then running startx should get you into X at least. It would make my
life so much easier if X had some default places to look for fonts when
the config file fails.
You'll probably want to comment out the
FontPath "unix/:-1"
line in XF86Config-4.
>
>
> >try doing this:
> >
> >urpmi kdebase XFree86
>
> I got 'upto date'
> so used <urpmi --auto-select kdebase...> and got huge rpm list @ 74Mg
> but when answered Y urpmi could'nt find the files, said urpmi data
base had
> to updated
hmmmm. Now that's odd. I wouldn't have expected the 8.2 mirrors to
disappear... I was going to ask you to send me your urpmi config but
it's probably about 50 MB. Can you run
head /var/lib/urpmi/list.*
and send me the output. Also /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg
I've had trouble getting things from cooker, but that's perfectly
normal.
Did you try running the update command?
>
> >That looks like you're running kde3 - is that from cooker? if so you
> >might want to try
>
> no, no, not cooker, only from 8.2 vanilla install off planetmirror
>
> >urpmi kdebase XFree86 libqt2 libqt3
> urpmi returned <libqt3 not in database>
I suspect that after you get X running you're going to have problems
with missing bits of qt and kde. One step at a time I guess. Urpmi seems
to have correctly identified the stuff to download. We just need to
figure out why it's not getting stuff down. Any chance you could send me
all the stuff that you get when you run urpmi?
>
> >ooh, what does startkde3 do?
>
> nothing...'command not found'
ok, so it's not kde3.
Actually, here's an idea - run "rpm -qa" and send me the output of that
(you'll probably want to send it to a file). Then I'll have a better
idea of what's missing and what needs upgrading.
>
> Getting ppp going via the command prompt is challenging
> seems not to connect using modified scripts in /etc/ppp
> this which might be best to fix first to enable urpmi to get rpm from
> remote servers
where are the rpms coming from now?
How are you trying to connect? I really recommend getting X running. Use
kppp or something to get a dialup from there.
But yeah, I generally don't use mandrake for routers. I've had trouble
with the dialup stuff also. I was pleased to see that they'd moved to
wvdial in the newer versions but it's still too difficult.
That said, I'd say that the easiest way to get PPP without X is to use
"linuxconf". Neat little tool because it can remember command line
switches better than I can. Anyway, there's a PPP/SLIP option under it's
networking thing which lets you set up PPP interfaces fairly easily. I
think once it's done it's dirty work you can just do "ifup ppp0" and it
should just work... In fact I think it lets you set up dial-on-demand,
but it's been ages since I've used it.
The other method for getting connections on ppp quickly is to use
minicom to connect, then quit without resetting and connecting pppd to
your serial device.
HTH
James.
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