Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 14:50:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Russell D. Murphy" <rdmurphy@vt.edu> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: rivers@dignus.com, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vnc Fatal server error: could not open default cursor font 'cursor' Message-ID: <199811161950.OAA14526@neale.econ.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811131645.IAA27056@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> (bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV)
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| From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) | Reply-To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV | | Hi-- | | Let me throw in my two bits worth...for what it's worth I'm currently the port | maintainer for vnc. Your $0.02 were quite a bit more valuable. | > > Fatal server error: | > > could not open default cursor font 'cursor' | | vncserver is really a perl script. When you run it, it executes an instance | of Xvnc, which is a modified X server. In this case, it's being run on the | display neale.econ.vt.edu:1. For some reason, Xvnc can't find the cursor font | file and dies here. < snip > | Since you have a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz, the problem | might be that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir is missing or corrupted. | You might want to see if this latter file exists (and is readable, etc.) and | that it contains a line that looks like this: | | cursor.pcf.gz cursor And, in fact, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir was only readable by owner. After adding go+r, vncserver runs without a hitch. I must have changed permissions on fonts.dir at some point without realizing it. Thanks again. Russ M. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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