Guest Steppenwolf Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 Hello, I'm new to Mandriva Linux [2007.1 Spring] but like it a lot. In the Mandriva control center (in the desktop), when I tried to change some of the fonts, I deleted them all by mistake... Now when Mandriva boots and wants to start the X Server, it fails with an error "cant' find fixed font" (or similar message). I booted from DVD to update the Mandriva Linux which it did, but unfortunately it didn't re-install the fonts... Actually I've no idea where to start. I hope I don't need to re-install the entire Mandrive Linux partition? Thanks in advance and all the best. [moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 you should be given a text login screen after X startup fails, right? Log in as root. Then do this: urpmi xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-7.2.0-1mdv2008.0 urpmi x11-font-misc then you can try starting X again: service -f dm I think that should do it. If not, post back and I'll try and figure out what other fonts packages may be needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steppenwolf Posted August 2, 2007 Report Share Posted August 2, 2007 (edited) Hi and many thanks for your help. you should be given a text login screen after X startup fails, right? Yes. Log in as root. Then do this: urpmi xorg-x11-75dpi-fonts-7.2.0-1mdv2008.0 urpmi x11-font-misc then you can try starting X again: service -f dm I think that should do it. If not, post back and I'll try and figure out what other fonts packages may be needed. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I've to add I use Mandriva 2007 Spring Free and already added the official FTP servers to the software installation manager (when the X desktop still worked). So I guess the "urpmi" commands load mainly from the Internet, not the DVD. I did "urpmi org-x11-75dpi-fonts-" (because it didn't find the exact name) and Mandriva sucessfully installed "org-x11-75dpi-fonts-7.1.0-6mdv2007.0.i586". I did "urpmi x11-font-misc" and Mandriva sucessfully installed "x11-font-misc-1.0.0-3mdv2007.0.noarch". "service -f dm" did jump back, and entering "kde" results in the same X error message: Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' I also added some more font packs, which I got when I just entered "urpmi org-x11-" and "urpmi x11-font-" but with no effect. Edited August 2, 2007 by Steppenwolf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 have you try to urpmi xfs you might have deleted it also... then make sure /etc/init.d/xfs start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted August 4, 2007 Report Share Posted August 4, 2007 yep, try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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