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- From: tmurr@hw21.ma30.bull.com (Tom Murray)
- Subject: Re: X error message, font 'fixed'
- Organization: Bull HN Informations Systems Inc.
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:26:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.222642.13944@mips2.ma30.bull.com>
- Keywords: font,'fixed'
- References: <1992Dec21.181132.745@nevada.edu>
- Sender: news@mips2.ma30.bull.com (Usenet News Manager)
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- In article <1992Dec21.181132.745@nevada.edu>, fmn@nevada.edu (FRANK NEEDHAM) writes:
- |> After editing the mouse line in Xconfig the following error came up after X
- |> died, :-(.
- |> no SIOCGIFCONF
- |>
- |> Fatal server error:
- |> could not open default font 'fixed'
- |>
- |> giving up.
- |> xinit: Invalid argument (errno 22): unable to connect to X server
- |> xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
- |>
- |>
- |> thanks,
- |> -frank
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- I had the same problem , posted the same question,
- the answer was :
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- from MSR113@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
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- > I had this same problem. goto the fonts dir, and type
- > mkfontdir
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- or from <CXF111@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
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- > do a 'mkfontdir' in each of the directories in your system that
- > contains X fonts. this will generate a new fonts.dir file (or )
- > fonts.scale and X should work fine afterwards.
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- == Tom Murray Zenith Data Systems
- == (508) 294-2285 (294-2285) 300 Concord Road MA30/MS853A
- == T.Murray@ma30.bull.com Billerica, MA 01821-4186
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