Bug 52804

Summary: vncserver won't start; fails with font errors.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Public Beta Reporter: lars
Component: XFree86Assignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description lars 2001-08-29 14:34:58 UTC
Description of Problem:

Running the 'vncserver' command fails to start up Xvnc.  It fails with the
following message in ~/.vnc/hostname:1.log:

  Fatal server error:
  could not open default font 'fixed'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  vnc-3.3.3r2-18

How Reproducible:

  Run vncserver.

Additional Information:

This is a very stock (beta) installation with no post-install changes to
the X configuration.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-08-29 14:43:45 UTC
This xfs problem is fixed in XFree86-4.1.0-0.99.1.