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Article #119Re: broken X Font server - can no longer boot up
From: Jeff Fookson
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 00:00
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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. -- Jeffrey E. Fookson, PhD Phone: (520) 621 5384 Senior Support Analyst jfookson@as.arizona.edu Steward Observatory University of Arizona
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a997,94389df57ae7c903 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a997,public X-Google-Thread: 1103af,94389df57ae7c903 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,94389df57ae7c903 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,94389df57ae7c903 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,94389df57ae7c903 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public From: jfookson@penguin.as.arizona.edu (Jeff Fookson) Subject: Re: broken X Font server - can no longer boot up Date: 1999/10/12 Message-ID: <7tvpn1$4r2$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu> X-Deja-AN: 535883009 References: <7pdobj$1kb$1@dove.qut.edu.au> <37F513A6.FAD9CC6A@nmt.edu> <Pine.HPP.3.96L.991002160237.2488B-100000@tw900.eng.cam.ac.uk> <37F66268.B68679F4@nmt.edu> <7tgsch$1s1$1@panix2.panix.com> Organization: The University of Arizona Newsgroups: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x