Re: graphical interface stopped working :)

[gregory mott <gmott ntlworld com>]

On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 17:48, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 11:49:52 +0300, samah Ibrahim wrote:
> > I'm using redhat 8.0 since sometime , and on a boring day it occured to me 
> > to change some graphical configuration options , something that has to do 
> > with the language , and it seemed I have messed things up ,
> > 
> > I just learned the lesson , " dont do anything unless U KNOW what u're 
> > doing" ,
> > 
> > now the graphical interface is no more working, and I got the error:
> > 
> > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> Is your font server enabled and running?
> 
>   chkconfig xfs on
>   service xfs start
>   
> Apart from that, you could search the list archive at this mirror
> location:
> 
>   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=redhat-list&r=1&w=2
> 
> I seem to remember the problem has been covered before.

i got that error when i installed rh9 and brought forward my stuff from
rh7.3.  turned out my /etc/profile didn't do anything if HOME wasn't
set, but under rh9, even if HOME isn't set, /etc/profile needs to do
whatever, or prefdm conks.  ymmv.