edward@julia.math.ucla.edu (10/04/90)
Hi--
I just finished compiling the X11R4 server on our DECstation 5000/200,
and much to my displeasure got the following message when I started
xinit.
failed to set default font path '/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/local/lib/X
11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
Fatal server bug!
could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
The connection was probably broken by a server shutdown or KillClient.
All of the font directories are world-read/searchable, and I ran mkfontdir
on all of them. Anyone have any ideas? Please e-mail them to me. Thanks,
edward.
Edward Dergharapetian (213) 206-6067
UCLA Mathematics Dept. 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555
ARPA: edward@math.ucla.edu
"Life was easy when it was boring"swed@aerospace.aero.org (Gregory D. Swedberg) (10/06/90)
We just had exactly the same problem on an Silicon Graphics 4D/20 with R3. We got it to work by uncompressing all of the fonts and then doing mkfontdir on each font directory. This worked but we have no idea why since SGI claims that the fonts aren't shipped compressed and some other machines here work fine with the compressed fonts. You might want to try mkfontdir on each directory first to see if that fixes the problem before actually uncompressing the files. Hope this was of some help.