ShineDesign Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 This happened to me about a week ago on my MDK10 installation. Here's how I fixed it: Rebooted in failsafe mode. Everything booted up fine. Rebooted in normal "linux" mode. Everything booted up fine. It seems that booting in failsafe repaired whatever font directories were not present, and allowed me to boot again in normal mode. Give that a whack, if you havn't reloaded everything yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 another valuable lesson is - there's usually a way to do things in /home. where you can't screw anything up much at all. It's much safer to just put fonts in ~/.fonts and then run fc-cache. All remotely recent applications - those that use fontconfig, which covers any QT 3 or GTK 2 application at *least* - will see fonts in that directory, and you can't mess anything up by doing it. And if you do, just wipe 'em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 It seems that booting in failsafe repaired whatever font directories were not present, and allowed me to boot again in normal mode. Give that a whack, if you havn't reloaded everything yet. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, I had previously tried rebooting into all the available modes, and nothing seemed to do much good. I've managed to get everything more-or-less back to where I was before, so I'm able to post from home again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sellis Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 I've managed to get everything more-or-less back to where I was before, so I'm able to post from home again. Well, almost. I had a horrible moment where I thought the whole system was borked again. What is actually happening is that the "Booting, press ESC for verbose mode" screen is completely blank. The monitor seems to think it's getting an out of range signal of some sort. Pressing ESC does not return to text mode, although booting via text mode is OK. After 30 seconds or so, the graphical login screen appears, and everything is then OK. Also, the same thing happens during the shutdown sequence. Blank screen for 30 seconds or so, then it shuts down. So, it's nothing quite as nasty as the previous problem, but it's worrying nonetheless. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted October 27, 2004 Report Share Posted October 27, 2004 I had this problem, just now. the only thing i can think of that could of possibly caused this was installing a couple of fonts via kdes font install. anyway using unix/:-1 as a fontpath didn't work. so i followed some other directions edited /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs changed the "-port -1" to "-port 7100" edited /etc/X11/fs/config changed "no-listen = tcp" to "#no-listen = tcp" so xfs would listen for connections over tcp. edited /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 added FontPath "unix/:7100" then: service xfs stop service xfs start startx and it worked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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