[gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

[gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

[Gentoo]

After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the 
following error from startx:

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

I have numerous fonts in my xorg.conf FontPath, as near as I can tell. 
I've had this problem with both radeon and vesa drivers.  Any help 
appreciated.    g

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Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

[David Corbin]

On Saturday 15 July 2006 09:27, Gentoo wrote:
> After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the
> following error from startx:
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Solved.  I had comment out the first FontPath line 
(/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled) because I misinterpreted the cause of an 
earlier problem.  

X was trying to start a kde-3.2 session (which had long since been removed).  
That failed.  It then ended with an error about the reference count on this 
particular font path.  I cleaned out old XSession entries, and things are 
better.

Thanks
David
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Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Gentoo wrote:
> After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get the
> following error from startx:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>       after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> I have numerous fonts in my xorg.conf FontPath, as near as I can tell.
> I've had this problem with both radeon and vesa drivers.  Any help
> appreciated.    g

Make sure you've got /usr/share/fonts/misc listed in xorg.conf. Make
sure /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1.5 does not exist (1.4 is fine).

Remerge font-alias, encodings, font-misc-misc, font-cursor-misc.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-user] X11 7 won't start

[Benno Schulenberg]

Someone wrote:
> After upgrading to x11 7.0, following the migration guide, I get
> the following error from startx:
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

Post your xorg.conf.  And an 'ls -l /usr/share/fonts/'.

Also see http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages .

Benno
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