I solved it and I hope this will help a few people. Its got to do that Fedora (and othe linux??) are moving away from xfs (fontserver).
In its place sits a directory called "/etc/X11/fontpath.d" that contains links to all FONT directories on the system You place a link in there and libXfont will inform X that a new font is available. When the upgrade was done to Fedora 10 somehow not all links were made and X didnt get all the fonts is needed. The problem I had that NOTHING showed up in the logs and X was actually quite happily working and only failed to respawn after LOGOUT. Further some of the messages are now logged to "/var/log/kdm.log". The ONLY thing that was a little odd was the weird log message of startkde "startkde stopped" and not respawning. I then used an application that I had not used after the upgrade and suddenly one line in the .xsession-errors showed up "fixed font missing". So I did some research and learned that the "/etc/X11/fontpath.d" had replaced xfs ... and I made sure that all the fonts of the system were properly linked. Jobst On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 12:54:07PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach ([email protected]) wrote: > > > Hi. > > I just upgraded to FC10 and everything works BUT 1 thing. > > When I look at the first mingetty (CTRL-ALT-F1) session the > boot process has not cleanly finished as the last lines of the > boot process are still clearly visible and the login screen > that SHOULD be there is not there. > > This is not the case for all the other login screens and X is there too > (as I am typing this from a X based mutt session). > > I normally enable only 2 mingettys in inittab but it looks > too that inittab still has started all 6. > > When I log out then X returns to the first login screen > (the unfinished boot process visbile) but does NOT respawn > a new X session and the only two things I can > do is to use one of the mingetty's to login in and use > startx or reboot the machine to get a new X login screen. > > Anybody knows what this might be? > > > Jobst > > > > > > > -- > People who fight may lose. People who do not fight have already lost. - > Bertolt Brecht > > | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [email protected], General Manager > | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L > |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Nothing is stationary. Everything wiggles. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, [email protected], General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The Meditation Room P/L |0|0|0| +61 3 9532 7677, POBox 277, Caulfield South, 3162, Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
