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> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

>> Hi all
>> I shutdown the system with shutdown -r now and next time when I
>> started, it started nicely but when it was about to open login
>> window, suddendenly it started flashing with some red blue colors
>> visible on screen. I kept the system like that for at least 15min but
>> nothing happened.
>> Finally, I have to ALT+CTRL+DEL to get to boot prompt and shutdown
>> properly.

>> Later I started in runlevel  3 and with startx command I could get
>> the log file from XFree86.

>> The last line of says that

>> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

>> Fatal server error:
>> could not open default font 'fixed'

>> What is to done know? Should I reinstall? How to get appropriate font
>> files that are required by Free86?

>> Manya

> A friend of mine had this problem after installing Alchemist.  We traced it
> to the xfs daemon not starting at boot.  So we changed to root, started xfs
> using "xfs --daemon" (without the ""s) and started X again.  Worked fine,
> and seemed to have no problems next time we restarted Linux.

> Hope this helps,
> Simon

> >> Hi all
> >> I shutdown the system with shutdown -r now and next time when I
> >> started, it started nicely but when it was about to open login
> >> window, suddendenly it started flashing with some red blue colors
> >> visible on screen. I kept the system like that for at least 15min but
> >> nothing happened.
> >> Finally, I have to ALT+CTRL+DEL to get to boot prompt and shutdown
> >> properly.

> >> Later I started in runlevel  3 and with startx command I could get
> >> the log file from XFree86.

> >> The last line of says that

> >> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

> >> Fatal server error:
> >> could not open default font 'fixed'

> >> What is to done know? Should I reinstall? How to get appropriate font
> >> files that are required by Free86?

> >> Manya

>>Hi all
>>I shutdown the system with shutdown -r now and next time when I
>>started, it started nicely but when it was about to open login window,
>>suddendenly it started flashing with some red blue colors visible on
>>screen. I kept the system like that for at least 15min but nothing
>>happened.
>>Finally, I have to ALT+CTRL+DEL to get to boot prompt and shutdown
>>properly.

>>Later I started in runlevel  3 and with startx command I could get the
>>log file from XFree86.

>>The last line of says that

>>Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

>>Fatal server error:
>>could not open default font 'fixed'

>>What is to done know? Should I reinstall? How to get appropriate font
>>files that are required by Free86?

>>Manya

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> I recently got this error message after some KDE work
> and I found a of people with apparently the same problem
> but not the answer I needed. After a few hours of looking
> I found the problem. Hope this helps anybody who gets this
> frustrating problem some day.

> I use RedHat 7.2.

> Solve the fixed font problem:

> First: see if you HAVE the default font fixed:
>   fslsfonts -server unix/:7100
> font "fixed" needs to appear in the list.

> If you get an error message running fslsfonts then xfs is not running,
> ps -fC xfs  will confirm. If so, then use "service xfs start"

> If fslsfonts doesn't report a "fixed" font then either:
> 1. the fonts.dir or fonts.alias files do not exist in (usually:) /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
> 2. these fonts.dir or fonts.alias files are not readable by user xfs (!); the RH xfs startup uses user xfs.
>    "locate fonts.dir| xargs ls -l" should show all fonts.dir files world readable. I think.
> 3. The font just is not there at all -> install something like ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.1/en/os/i386/XFree86-...

> Make sure that all font directories you want to use are in your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config.
> So IN PARTICULAR your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, of course.

> As posted by many people over the years :-) you need, in your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 you
> in the section "Files" a line like:
> FontPath   "unix/:7100"

> Suggestions and corrections welcome.

> A.

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>> > I recently got this error message after some KDE work
>> and I found a of people with apparently the same problem
>> but not the answer I needed. After a few hours of looking
>> I found the problem. Hope this helps anybody who gets this
>> frustrating problem some day.
>> > I use RedHat 7.2.
>> > Solve the fixed font problem:
>> > First: see if you HAVE the default font fixed:
>> fslsfonts -server unix/:7100
>> font "fixed" needs to appear in the list.
>> > If you get an error message running fslsfonts then xfs is not running,
>> ps -fC xfs  will confirm. If so, then use "service xfs start"
>> > If fslsfonts doesn't report a "fixed" font then either:
>> 1. the fonts.dir or fonts.alias files do not exist in (usually:) /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
>> 2. these fonts.dir or fonts.alias files are not readable by user xfs (!); the RH xfs startup uses user xfs.

> In my case the problem was that the fonts.dir file was not
> world-readable.
> That's ALL it took to keep X from working at all. Considering how
> many fonts and font directories there are, XFree86 should be a little
> more bullet proofed than that.

> The really annoying thing was that this happened as a result
> of running 'up2date' from Red Hat. It updated XFree86, but the
> apparently the file included in the RPM had the wrong permissions.
> As far as I can tell, this was the only problem, since I was
> changing fonts.dir to be world-readable.

> The only other thing I might add is that after you do that,
> you need to restart xfs (if it's running), either by rebooting or by
> typing

> /sbin/xfs restart

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