Re: Fatal server error:could not open default font 'fixed'?

[Phil Savoie <psavoie1783 rogers com>]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 16:21, gregory mott wrote:
> hi,
>
> i installed rh9, and much of it comes up and hums happily (server type
> stuff, eg kernel, network, adsl, named, dhcp...) but X won't go.  X
> still works great under rh7.3.  i notice Xconfigurator is gone.  i tried
> redhat-config-xfree86, got:
>       * ddcprobe returned bogus values:
>       ID:   MEIa30a
>       Name: None
>       HorizSync: None
>       VertSync:  None
>       Couldn't start X server, trying with a fresh configuration
>       * ddcprobe returned bogus values:
>       ID:   MEIa30a
>       Name: None
>       HorizSync: None
>       VertSync:  None
>       Trying with card: SiS 6326
>       xconf.py: Fatal IO error 2 (Connection reset by peer) on X server
> :17.0.
>
> /var/log/messages says:
> Jun  1 19:18:46 ruby xfs: xfs startup succeeded
> Jun  1 19:18:47 ruby init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
> minutes
>
> XFree86.setup.log says:
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> i tried:
>    cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
>    mkfontdir
> but no difference.
>
> i bet i got in this pickle because my rh9 install (via ftp) crashed
> (presumably a network hiccup), and i resumed it as an upgrade.  so a way
> out likely is to just byte it and start over with a fresh install
> again.  but is there another way anyone is aware of?
>
> in case it helps:
> rpm -qa|grep -i fonts|sort
> fonts-ISO8859-7-1.0-2
> fonts-ISO8859-7-100dpi-1.0-2
> fonts-ISO8859-7-75dpi-1.0-2
> fonts-ISO8859-7-Type1-1.0-2
> fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi-1.0-1
> ghostscript-fonts-5.50-3
> tetex-fonts-1.0.7-47
> ttfonts-1.0-9
> ttfonts-ja-1.2-8
> urw-fonts-2.0-17
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-base-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.2.0-8
> XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.2.0-8


Hi Gregory,

Funny you should mention that.  I just had that happen to me on RH8 DVD 
install.  What I did was ctl-alt-F1 while it was in the middle of starting up 
X.  It told me the same info you posted.  My fix?  I rebooted the damn thing 
and all was well after.  Go Figure!

Phil