Subject: Re: x server (4.1.0) crash on YDL 2.1
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Sat Mar 16 2002 - 03:12:23 MST
Oh! Looking at the log, I would suspect that the font server, xfs, has
crashed. I'm not sure why but you could try restarting it with
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start. Check the system log /var/log/messages for
further clues.
A number of font paths are listed at the start of the X config file. It is
worth checking that these all exist.
Iain
--On Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:20:50 +0100 Yvon Thoraval
<yvon.thoraval@free.fr> wrote:
> after install of afterstep wm on a ppc9500 running xfree v4.1 over YDL
> 2.1, the x server crashed with a black screen. i saw somme attempts to
> sync without succes. Then i did a hardware reboot and restarted the
> computer at run level 3. When doing a startx i get the attached
> "XFree86.0.log" on which i had a quick look. The video settings, as far
> as i know, are correct and the same as before. X server complains about a
> font (might have been installed by AfterStep-1.8.8-2.src.rpm) :
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> what could i do in order to recover such a situation ?
>
> regards
>
> --
> Yvon Thoraval
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