Subject: RE: X Font Server Problems
From: David Marceau (dmarceau@metrowerks.com)
Date: Mon Sep 18 2000 - 08:39:39 MDT
I think your problem may be due to shortages in RAM and Disk space.
A little insight about what happened to me concerning X font server:
When I first installed ydl, I was getting the inability to startx because of
two things:
1)x font server would not start
2)not enough disk space
I managed to make some disk space but just enough to get the x font server
running.
I had very limited amounts of memory(32MB ram) and disk(100MB left).
When I liberated some disk space and rebooted, the x font server started due
to the extra disk space.
When I startx, it started up successfully with enough memory to get X/GNOME
up.
After that I only had 1MB(RAM) left for invoking apps into.
IMHO I would strongly recommend 2GB Disk with 64MB of RAM minimum for linux
on a mac.
I hope this helps.
-----Original Message-----
From: JCS [mailto:chris526@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2000 10:06 AM
To: YellowDog Linux
Subject: X Font Server Problems
After running the Helix Gnome Update program to update Gnome over the
internet, my system crashed. After rebooting, the X server failed with the
message, "Unable to load font fixed." Also, even though the xfs font server
is started in level 3, it appears that the X font server is not running.
ps -ef | grep "xfs"
returns nothing.
In the files section of XF86Config, I have the following line for the font
path:
FontPath "unix/:-1"
>From what I have been able to learn, this line indicates that the fonts
will
be obtained from an X font server. But I removed this line and X was then
able to start up, although it appears to be running more slowly now.
Any information would be appreciated.
Chris
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