> > I recently reinstalled all of the xfnt packages on my box, and this has > broken X. This is the error message I get when I run 'startx': > > failed to set default font path '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: can't connect: errno = 111 > giving up. > xinit: Connection refused(errno 111): unable to connect to X server > xinit: no such process (errno 3): Server error. > > I found a mention of the "could not open default font 'fixed'" error in > the man pages, and it said that this means that there is an invalid entry > in the font path. However, the path does exist, and I ran 'mkfontdir' to > be sure that fonts.dir exists and is in order. root is group and owner > for all relevant files and directories, and the permissions are world > read, world execute if a directory.
I had the same problem when I installed MetroLink's MetroX server. It seems that it [this could be different in your case] required the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/* to be .Z rather than .gz, as shipped with Debian. This could be a MetroX peculiarity. Are you using XFree86 or some other X server? Can anyone offer a better solution? This one's kinda bodgy.. :) D. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
