X.Org font problem

[Mark Haney]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:06, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:03, Mark Haney wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 10:49, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > > Mark Haney wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> > > >                                                                                 
> > > > Fatal server error:
> > > > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I was also getting a 'i830_drm_ring' SPACE error and X doesn't start. 
> > > > Does anyone have any idea what happened and what I need to do to fix it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Is the xfs server running?
> > > 
> > > service xfs status
> > > 
> > > 
> > Yes it is running.
> 
> I had exactly the same problem earlier, it was due to me accidentally
> upgrading my FC2 box to the devel branch.
> 
> There is a problem with the Xorg upgrade, I had to remove some packages
> manually and then re-install them manually.
> 
> Did you do any thing along those lines?
> 
> Do you have fonts-xorg- some thing or other?

I do, but all the X updates have been from updates-released.  This
machine is my daily use machine, but I haven't updated it in a couple
weeks.


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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
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