Thats probably a know RedHat problem - they have manged it
to put a few font pakages into their services which do change
the access rights to some of the font paths to root only.
AFAIK RedHat has addressed that in more recent packages,
but unless you know how to do an up2date in textmode you
wont get that far for the gui tool.
to my knowledge, you just have to change this manually.
somewhere in the mailing list repository you might find
the description from Mike A. Harris i think.
-Alex.
> After an up2date update in RedHat linux 7.3 I have been
> unable to either
> boot to level 5 or to use startx. I'm including the log file
> below. Can
> you help me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wade Shepherd
> XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-8) / X
> Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
> Release Date: 23 January 2002
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
> newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
> reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17-0.13smp i686 [ELF]
> Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com
[...]
> (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver
> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default cursor font 'cursor'
