[plug] RH Upgrade / X problem

Leon Brooks leon at brooks.smileys.net
Sun Jul 2 00:55:49 WST 2000


Dave T Burbidge wrote:
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

Blow away the .font-unix directory in /tmp - completely - and start the
xfs service ("/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start" as root) before trying to
start X again.

If that fails, do a clean install of Mandrake 7.1 and select XFree86 V4.
(-:

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