ffi Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 I'm getting the following error from x after updating my system today Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' I believe this is the relevant section from xorg.conf, which should be the correct font path Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 21, 2006 Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 try running: # fc-cache -v to rebuild the font cache. do this as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2006 this didn't work :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 (edited) Some other wierd thing, during start up there's an error message saying it has 0 bytes free space available on the drive. Now when I look at it from ubuntu it also says 0 bytes available but the total number of space used by all files <<< than the disk size. (ie. contents 5 GB, Volume 9.8 GB; free space 0 bytes\) Edited April 22, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 I downloaded KDE for Ubuntu and Konqueror gives me different numbers than Nautilus, it does show the partition is full, there's a huge /.Trash-root/ directory but I don't know how to empty it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted April 22, 2006 Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 I downloaded KDE for Ubuntu and Konqueror gives me different numbers than Nautilus, it does show the partition is full, there's a huge /.Trash-root/ directory but I don't know how to empty it. You can just remove all the files in it as root Presuming the directory is in root you can rm -rf /root/.Trash-root/* On another note a missing fon't shouldn't be fatal to the server so it seems unlikley that is the problem and more likely diskspace not allowing the logfiles etc. to be written. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 I managed to empty the trashbin and I´m back into X again :) Though for some reason all entries in my k-menu and some icons disappeared from my user... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 After applying some updates from Cooker I am getting the same error again. Anyone has a clue on how to fix this? I didn't even update xorg yet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 What is the actual size of your partitions ?? I supect that your home partition is too small as is also your root partition. as a result whenever you do any downloading etc, you fill the partitions. Temp is easily filled with lots of material and if you handle a lot of graphics then the .thumbnail folder will also have a huge amount in there. I once had 750Mbs in .thumbnails. To clean it out just open konqueror and set it to show hidden files and look for .thumbnails and delete them. They are regenerated as needed. I now routinely empty it . You would also be well advised to install Filelight which can give you a graphical indication of every directory and folder and file size. You will be amazed at what large sizes occupy your harddrive. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 I am beginning to think this has something to do with the update to xorg 7.0, which is very problematic for many people. I have X back again, sort of but only as root, so I guess this is a cooker issue and I will have to wait for now unless anyone has any ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 There is another post here about Cooker and xorg7, and it states in there that xorg 7 is broke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Well it sort of works right now, except: kdm is broken nvidia plf driver is broken mouse wheel on my logitech mouse is broken but at least I have a gui again, why did i update? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Typical Cookeritis symptoms... xorg is almost completely broken in Cooker right now, as you already know. Just be patient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 20, 2006 Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Man, I am so glad I saw this before I did urpmi --auto-select next: < omar ~ > urpmq --sources xorg-x11-server ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/cooker/i586//media/main/ xorg-x11-server-7.0.0-3mdk.noarch.rpm < omar ~ > Xorg -version X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2006 Lucky you :P, well kdm works again but the fonts are ugly (even though the kdmrc entries are the same) mouse wheel fixed, though volume up doesn´ work nvidia-plf still not working btw latest version is 5mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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