Why does Mandrake[now and past versions]die wh
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onederer : 30/12/02 04:07 AM : Incident created |
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- it reports that the Font Server cannot load the "default" font? Why does this cause a "FATAL ERROR"? How can one recover from such a bad error? Where is the directory location of the X Font Server? What is the name of the X Font server? What is the name of the "default" font? Where is the default font directory located? Does Mandrake provide a simple recovery for this? Why does this totally bomb out and kill the X server, and render it totally useless, and not runnable again?
This has been a chronic problem with version 9.0, and past Mandrake versions. It happens spontainously, and everytime, I've always had to re-install the entire operating system, to regain the X server facilities to run KDE.I tried to simply re-install the "X" packages, but to no avail. This must be because setup information(s) had also been destroyed in the breaking-down process. "X" is destroyed and KDE or Gnome or any of the others cannot run.
It does not render the Command Mode in-operable. That is unless one had chosen to go directly to the the graphics mode on boot-up. I always boot into the command prompt, and then "startx" to go to KDE. This has always given me a "out" when things go wrong. If one gets stuck in the graphics mode when this happens,the entire machine freezes, and ALT-CTRL-BKSPC are useless, as well as ALT-CTRL-DELETE.
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Linegod_7611 : 30/12/02 08:39 PM : Reply received |
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- Try restarting the font server:
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart
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onederer : 31/12/02 03:57 AM : More info provided |
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- Thanks for the tip. Since I have just started to setup Mandrake once more, after totally re-insalling it from scratch, I won't need to try to restart xfs, unless the "default" font goes bad again. When it died last time, I tried to recover by using "update". It didn't cure the problem. Only a new fresh install fixed it. This has been the same problem in the past, with prior versions.I also noticed that it crashed much more often with EXT2FS, than with ReiserFS.
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kejly : 31/12/02 12:43 PM : Reply received |
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- This normally happens, when you don't have free spacece on /. I had this
problem too, after freeing some space (20 MB will be enough) works it. The X
setup information are not destroyed, for X start is enough to have "unix/:1"
FontPath selected and fonts will be generated.
s pozdravem/MfG/regards
David Kejzlar
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kejly : 31/12/02 01:04 PM : Reply received |
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- This normally happens, when you don't have free spacece on /. I had this
problem too, after freeing some space (20 MB will be enough) works it. The X
setup information are not destroyed, for X start is enough to have "unix/:1"
FontPath selected and fonts will be generated.
s pozdravem/MfG/regards
David Kejzlar
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onederer : 12/03/03 06:38 PM : Incident closed |
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- These people came up with an answer that I had been searching for, for a very long time. I appreciate that.
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