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Article #116Re: broken X Font server - can no longer boot up
From: paulgear1
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:00
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In article <7tvpn1$4r2$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu>, jfookson@penguin.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Fookson) wrote: > I've been having a similar set of problems with xfs and gdm properly starting > after various kinds of tinkering (such as changing run levels and other trivial > kinds of changes) and discovered via running "strace -f" on a machine where xfs > was starting and one on which it was not that on the failing machine > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir was only readable by root (xfs runs as > user 'xfs') whereas on the healthy machine, that file was world-readable. > Changing the permissions fixed the startup problems immediately. > > Perhaps this is causing some of the difficulties others are reporting. Just to confirm Jeff's solution here: this was exactly my problem. The fonts.dir in the misc directory was mode 600 owned by root. However, this problem only occurred for me after upgrading from 3.3.3 to 3.3.5 using the Red Hat 6.0 RPMS. I didn't change my configuration, i just updated using an 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' and it screwed up. So i guess the moral of the story is that not everyone who comes across this problem has done the wrong thing. Something in the Red Hat packages is dodgy. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
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