On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 10:08 -0600, 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. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson georgeanelson com> > > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > > 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! > > Greg > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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. > > Greg Ennis > > this seems similar to what i've been going through. there appears to be no interest from redhat in helping with/fixing it. there are a number of us caught on it, and nothing seems to be forthcoming. see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169238 i think this is all the same problem. moving back to old x releases appears to be one of the only solutions. i too see a flash of the gui login (gdm greeter) screen and then it crashes. i've done a bit of investigation, but am at a loss for where to look further, at this point. there appears to be something related to gdm (and kdm based on the bug report) starting x which causes it. my current workaround is to boot into RL 3, login, and then run startx manually. which, for me, works. but it sure is a drag. john
