Can't find missing font on Fedora 8

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Nov 15 14:56:30 UTC 2007


lbrooks at MIT.EDU wrote:

> I am getting the following fatal error when trying to launch a third-party
> app on Fedora 8:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
>  Major opcode of failed request:  45 (X_OpenFont)
>  Serial number of failed request:  16
>  Current serial number in output stream:  31
> 
> 
> I have tried installing all sorts of fonts and cannot get the error to get
> the
> application to launch.  Does anyone know what package my system is
> missing?

These may be legacy apps in need of a font server,
yum install 
/sbin/service xfs start

and try again.

-- Rex




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