On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Thomas Wong wrote: >Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 18:15:26 -0800 >From: Thomas Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C2B99D.6A48DFC0" >Subject: [XFree86] Problem in using startx > >Hi .. Could you help me solve this problem. ? > >Now i am using Red Hat Linux 8 , but today when i use "startx" command in text mode , >It fail and the following message comes out : >Could not open default font "fixed" > >Even i change inittad file and set default login is graphic mode , it also can't >work. Even >Login page also can't display. > >Thxfor your hel.
There are a variety of reasons that this problem could occur, and it is a rather common problem X users experience sometimes. To add to that, not long ago, we (Red Hat) released a rather craptastic kdebase erratum release which also contained some fixed fonts. Unfortunately, the rpm post install script contained some broken assumptions that "umask" on a given system will be set to a value that when mkfontdir is ran will produce fonts.dir files that are world readable. Many systems for one reason or another do not have umask set in this manner, so what happens when mkfontdir is ran, is it generates fonts.dir that is only root readable. When a non-root user tries to start X, it fails with the error above. We've either released an erratum since then to fix this, or we've got one in the QA chain, however users can work around the issue by changing the permissions on all fonts.dir files manually to 644. I've produced a patch to mkfontdir which forces the permissions on these files to always be mode 644, so that people packaging fonts do not need to worry about creating buggy font packages by default. All future Red Hat Linux XFree86 releases and erratum will have my mkfontdir patch, and hopefully will prevent many users from experiencing these types of silly problems due to quirks in the way legacy font technology works in X. Hope this helps, TTYL -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
