Re: Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

Hacksaw wrote:

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

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

This is a big problem. X doesn't like to do anything without "fixed". It pines for it's little bitmap buddy.

Is xfs actually running on your machine? No xfs, no fixed, no X.

And did anyone else have their xfs start up script in /etc/init.d get toasted?

Hi All,

okay, googling shows xfs as a font server. That makes sense, of some sort. Where/how would I check for this, if it's running.? Cheers.

Here is the script from /etc/init.d for xfs,

#!/bin/bash
#
# xfs: Starts the X Font Server
#
# Version: @(#) /etc/init.d/xfs 2.0
#
# chkconfig: 2345 90 10
# description: Starts and stops the X Font Server at boot time and shutdown. \
# It also takes care of (re-)generating font lists.
#
# processname: xfs
# config: /etc/X11/fs/config
# hide: true

# Source function library.
export LANG=C
. /etc/init.d/functions

umask 133

prog=xfs

# Make sure that xfs has "/" as the CWD
cd /

buildfontlist() {
pushd . &> /dev/null
for d in $(/usr/sbin/chkfontpath --list | cut -f 2 -d ':' | sort | uniq) ;do
if [ -d "$d" ]; then
cd "$d"
# Check if we need to rerun mkfontdir
REGEN_FONTS_DIR=no
if ! [ -e fonts.dir ]; then
REGEN_FONTS_DIR=yes
elif [ -n "$(find . -type f -cnewer fonts.dir -not -name 'fonts.cache*')" ];then
REGEN_FONTS_DIR=yes
fi
if [ "$REGEN_FONTS_DIR" = "yes" ]; then
rm -f fonts.dir
if ls | grep -iqs '\.tt[cf]$' ; then
# TrueType fonts found, generate fonts.scale and fonts.dir
ttmkfdir -d . -o fonts.scale && mkfontdir . &>/dev/null
fi
if ls | grep -iqs '\.ot[cf]$' ; then
# Opentype fonts found, generate fonts.scale and fonts.dir
mkfontscale . && mkfontdir . &>/dev/null
fi
if ls |grep -Eiqsv '(^fonts\.(scale|alias|cache.*)$|.+(\.[ot]t[cf]|dir)$)' ; then
# This directory contains non-TrueType/non-Opentype fonts
mkfontdir . &>/dev/null
fi
fi
fi
done
# Recreating fonts.dir files above may result in stale fonts.cache-1
# files since the directory mtimes change, so we run fc-cache to
# update any necessary fonts.cache files.
FC_CACHE=/usr/bin/fc-cache
if [ "$REGEN_FONTS_DIR" = "yes" -a -x "$FC_CACHE" ] ; then
# fc-cache 1.0.2 as included in Red Hat Linux 8.0 will SEGV when executed
# by this initscript, so we don't run fc-cache for version 1.0.2 since
# even if fc-cache were fixed, we can't guarantee the user would have the
# fixed version installed. Yes, this is an ugly, but necessary hack for
# the time being.
#[ $FC_CACHE --version 2>&1 | grep -q '1\.0\.2' ] ||
HOME=/ "$FC_CACHE"
fi
popd &> /dev/null
}

start() {
echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
[ -x /usr/sbin/chkfontpath ] && buildfontlist
rm -fr /tmp/.font-unix
daemon xfs -droppriv -daemon
ret=$?
[ $ret -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/xfs
echo
return $ret
} stop() {
echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
killproc xfs
ret=$?
[ $ret -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/xfs
echo
return $ret
} rhstatus() {
status xfs
} reload() {
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/xfs ]; then
echo -n $"Reloading $prog: "
[ -x /usr/sbin/chkfontpath ] && buildfontlist
killproc xfs -USR1
ret=$?
echo
return $ret
else
stop
start
fi
}

restart() {
 echo $"Restarting $prog:"
 stop
 start
}

case "$1" in
start)
    start
  ;;
stop)
    stop
  ;;
restart)
  restart
  ;;
reload)
    reload
  ;;
condrestart)
    [ -f /var/lock/subsys/xfs ] && reload || :
  ;;
status)
    rhstatus
  ;;
*)
  echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|status|restart|reload|condrestart}"
  exit 1
esac

exit $?

I have no idea whether it's right or not. Cheers, again.

Mark Sargent.