Hi, My computer is running the latest Debian unstable, including XFree86 4.1.0-8.
Suddenly, X won't start up anymore. I have no idea how long this problem exists, since my computer had been running continuously for a long time before I encountered the problem and I have no idea how long the last X session has lasted (some weeks, at least). In /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I encountered these lines: <quote> Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' </quote> These are the FontPath lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: <quote> FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server (xfs) FontPath "unix/:7101" # local font server (xfstt) FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" </quote> Since my font path includes xfs, I thought xfs should also be able to serve a font 'fixed'. But xfs logs lines like these into the syslog every time it starts: <quote> Oct 21 19:47:25 remco xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled (unreadable) Oct 21 19:47:25 remco xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled (unreadable) Oct 21 19:47:26 remco xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ (unreadable) Oct 21 19:47:26 remco xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID (unreadable) Oct 21 19:47:26 remco xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (unreadable) Oct 21 19:47:26 remco xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ (unreadable) </quote> It seems that these font directories are somehow unreadable. I have checked the permissions of all font directories and all font files. Nothing seems to be wrong. I have run update-fonts-alias, update-fonts-dir and update-fonts-scale on all font directories, but it doesn't help. The strangest thing is, that this problem seems to have started without any changes to configuration files. Is this a bug anybody knows of? Have I done anything wrong I haven't thought of yet? Please help, I'd like to have my X back. Remco
