Re: Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

[Mark Sargent <powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.