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Subject:    [JaxLUG] Re: xfs error -- I had this same problem with one 7.2 -> 7.3 upgrade
From:       "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith () ieee ! org>
Date:       2002-06-28 11:40:57
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On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 01:16, Art Wildman wrote:
> I did a upgrade from RH 7.1 - 7.3 and can't get X to come up... <deja-vu>
> ...
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> ...
> [root@tux X11]# service xfs status
> xfs dead but pid file exists

I had this _exact_same_error_ after upgrading 7.2 -> 7.3 on one specific
system (other upgraded systems were fine).  I found that some of my RPMs
for X didn't upgrade from 4.1.0 -> 4.2.0.  Not good.

So I manually RPM upgraded about everything I could find for 4.2.0 on
the CD, including non-X font stuff.  No go.  I tried running mkfontdir
and other tools in the font directories, no go.  I messed with xfs'
config, no go.

I eventually just went over to another system that had a clean 7.3
install and tarballed up "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts" and extracted to the
problem system.  I restarted xfs and bam!, it worked.

Seems like there might be an incorrect font list/config in one of the
font directories.  Don't know.  And it only happened on one upgrade,
others were fine.

-- Bryan

P.S.  BTW, until I figured out what the "issue" was, I pointed the
system to use another system's xfs so my user could get to work.  You
can do that with X.  Just change the "unix/:7100" to
"tcp/systemname:7100".  Of course, you must make sure "systemname"'s xfs
accepts external requests by commenting out the line "no-listen = tcp"
in its "/etc/X11/fs/config" file (and restart its xfs service).

-- 
Bryan J. Smith, E.I.                        SmithConcepts, Inc.
(407)489-7013 (Mobile)                 http://SmithConcepts.com
mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org        Engineers and IT Professionals
BS Computer Engineering    CompTIA Certified A+ Linux+ Network+


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