At 10:08 AM -0600 1/17/06, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:25 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote: >> At 4:15 PM -0600 1/16/06, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:03 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >> On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:55 -0500, Jack Aboutboul wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:09 -0600, Gregory P. Ennis wrote >> >> > > Other observations that I have made include the X.org.0.log entry of: >> >> > > >> >> > > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! >> >> > > >> >> > > Fatal server error: >> >> > > could not open default font 'fixed' >> >> > > >> >> > > I have also noticed that the xfs daemon is not running and when I >>try to >> >> > > start it manually I get a "Segmentation Fault" error. >> >> > > >> >> > > Has anyone else reported problems related to these updates. Can >>any of >> >> > > you help me. >> >> > > >> >> > >> >> > Greg, >> >> > >> >> > Do you use any non en-US locales with your machine? >> >> > >> >> > Jack >> >> > >> >> Jack, >> >> >> >> I am not sure what you mean by 'locales', but I do have Spanish, Greek, >> >> and Hebrew on both of these units in addition to English. However, I >> >> also have these fonts installed on outer FC4 units that are still >> >> working. >> >> >> >> Greg >> >> >> > >> >Jack or others on the List, >> > >> >Any more ideas about this problem. Do you think removing the Greek, >> >Hebrew, and Spanish fonts would resolve things, or how about removing >> >xfs and reinstalling it? >> >> Try creating a new user, log out, and log in as that user. If that fixes >> the problem, try copying hidden files and directories (names starting with >> ".") from your broken user to the new user until it breaks. >Tony, > >Both systems do not allow me to even get to the gui login screen. The >login screen is presented but it is not identifiable. It appears as the >resolution has been changed to something different than the monitor will >allow. > >However, I will try your method by using a terminal interface and >staring startx. Thanks for you help!!!! > >Thanks Again! >Tony, > >I tried creating a new user account, and doing a login on a terminal >windown. When I started 'startx' I received the same errors. > >I had a third machine develop the same symptoms of not displaying a gui >login screen. I am able to see the gui boot up process but when each >system tries to switch to the gui login the display presents itself with >some screwy lines. > >This all looks like the resolution has changed, but I have not changed any >of the resolutions. > >Is there a way to change the resolution from a terminal window. I would >like to try to change the resolution to the same as the default for the >boot up gui process. > >Sure would appreciate anyone's help. I can't help more, and ISTM that you have disproved my guess that it was a user config problem. From the creep to other machines, I would guess it is from recent updates, and might have something to do with your video card/drivers. Info about them might help others help you more. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
