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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