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From: rajeshg@diamond.tamu.edu (Rajesh Godbole)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: font path screwed up after installing XView
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Date: 5 Oct 90 20:22:57 GMT
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Reply-To: rajeshg@diamond.tamu.edu (Rajesh Godbole)
Organization: Texas A&M University Agricultural Engineering Department
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hello,
	we are having a problem running the X server after XView fonts were
installed.  the xview distribution was ftp'd from expo.lcs.mit.edu.
xinit does not find the default font fixed and exits, dumping a core file
with an error message:

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.

running just plain Xsun -fn '7x13' -fp '/usr/lib/X11/fonts' gives:

failed to set default font path '/usr/lib/X11/fonts'
Fatal server bug!
could not open default font '7x13'

I tried deleting the fonts installed by xview and running mkfontdir again,
but it doesn't work.

we have a lot of X based stuff running on sun3's (3/50 3/60 3/260)
the X is R4 compiled with gcc . the xview was also compiled with gcc.
Any suggestions?

thanks,

Rajesh Godbole,				|  preferred: rajeshg@diamond.tamu.edu
System Admin., Dept. of Ag. Engg.	|  otherwise: godbole@eemips.tamu.edu
Texas A&M University, College Station.	|  (409) 846-1969.
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