From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 20 15:26:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27565 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27550 for ; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:26:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07859; Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:26:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 15:26:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Leif Neland cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X can't set default font path In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > Suddenly, startx fails with the above error message. It worked last night > at shutdown, now it doesn't. > > I get this, when I run startx: > > > failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > (Reformatted.) Please answer directly (too); I can't keep up with the > list. Try running `mkfontdir' and ensure that the listed font directories exist. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message