I had the same problem with the 'fixed' fonts after upgrading KDE stuff. The problem is some RPM makes /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias readable by root only. I fixed the problem with
chmod a+r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias service xfs restart Then the X server starts fine. Diego > Disk space is fine, I double checked. > > Thanks > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Adam Luchjenbroers wrote: > > > On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 3:27 pm, kory gray wrote: > > > I upgrade my redhat 8.0 to the latest kde packages. > > > > > > I get the following error: > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > > > xfs server seems to be running. > > > > > > Any ideas, > > > > > > Kory > > > > I've had this problem when all disk space on my / partition was used, but that > > was also stopping XFS from running - so I don't know how helpful my advice > > might be. > > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- Diego Santa Cruz PhD. student Publications available at http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta Signal Processing Institute (LTS1 / ITS / STI) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) EPFL - STI - ITS, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +41 - 21 - 693 26 57 Fax: +41 - 21 - 693 76 00 ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
