🚀 go-pugleaf

Compiling XFree on your own on a RH6 system isn't a good idea unless you
know what you're doing.
Upgrade XFree86 stuff from RedHat instead and all will be well - the
"patch" is already there - you can try downloading at least the xfs rpm
and upgrade.
See the errata page.

K.

Jayan M wrote:
> 
> xfs seems to be broken. I too disabled it to get my
> system running - hope redhat will come up with a patch
> or so..
> 
> Jayan
> 
> Daniel Lyons wrote:
> >
> > Jeff N wrote:
> > >
> > > >when I reboot, it fails to start up now because 1 of the services the
> > > kernel
> > > >starts up is X Font Server (where did that come from?).  I guess I've
> > > >overwritten it.  do I have to reinstall everything again???  :(
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >    I too am having this exact same problem, I compiled and installed 3.3.4
> > > over 3.3.3 and now xfs hangs during bootup, and I can't get into Linux!  I
> > > can shutdown the box by hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL but that's it, nothing else
> > > will work and I've done a million "rescue" boots(for lack of a better term)
> > > and I have tried everything I could think of, and still nothing.. I sure as
> > > hell want to avoid reinstalling if I can, anyone know anything about this,
> > > please reply.  :)
> >
> > geez...and I thought I was the moron!  I've been having the same problem
> > with XFS!  I just disabled it completely by booting to single user mode
> > and deleting the xfs entries in my /etc/rc.d architecture (specifically,
> > "chkconfig --del xfs" does this job for me from the /etc/rc.d/init.d
> > directory)
> >
> > I guess the moral is:
> >
> > XFS SUCKS MAJOR ASS
> >
> > What was so bad about the old font system that it had to be replaced
> > with such a nonfunctional POS?
> >
> > Daniel


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Step by step guide to TrueType fonts under RedHat6:
http://home.powertech.no/rkaa/Linux_and_tv.html#ttf