Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2034
X breaks if "xfs" (X Font Server) service is marked at install to not be started up
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:49 EDT
This is pretty straight forward, while disabling several services I didn't want started, I turned off xfs as well. The result is that the X server would not start up. The fix probably should be to fixup the Font section of XF86Config if the user selects to not start up the "xfs" service. This bug only happened to me on sparc64 with a PCI graphics card, because only the PCI graphics card X servers will use an XF86Config file (the other Sparc X servers do not need one)
Dave: The default for new installations will be to run XFS. If you don't like this, some manual configuration will be necessary. We may improve this for 6.1, but I don't have time to write a program to dynamically edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and read font paths out of /etc/X11/fs/config and vice versa, and make sure it works 100% of the time. ------- Email Received From David Miller <davem@twiddle.net> 04/07/99 12:24 -------
Comments from davem: Then don't mark this bug as resolved, mark it in some other state becuase the bug is still there and I can hear people complaining about this bug already. A more efficient solution might be to not allow people to disable the xfs server from the services list in the installer. If an option is made available, user's will try to take advantage of it. Personally, based upon how much RAM I have, I automatically disable several services to keep memory usage down. I don't expect it to break X, and neither will other users. You can tell "me" that I can go and manually fiddle to make it work, and I did that, but are you prepared to hear the whole support center telling people one by one to do this as well? So please, I ask that you consider at least fixing this by not offering xfs to be disabled during the install, if it's going to break the system it makes no sense for the option to exist. Then don't mark this bug as resolved, mark it in some other state becuase the bug is still there and I can hear people complaining about this bug already. A more efficient solution might be to not allow people to disable the xfs server from the services list in the installer. If an option is made available, user's will try to take advantage of it. Personally, based upon how much RAM I have, I automatically disable several services to keep memory usage down. I don't expect it to break X, and neither will other users. You can tell "me" that I can go and manually fiddle to make it work, and I did that, but are you prepared to hear the whole support center telling people one by one to do this as well? So please, I ask that you consider at least fixing this by not offering xfs to be disabled during the install, if it's going to break the system it makes no sense for the option to exist. ------- Email Received From Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com> 04/07/99 13:02 ------- ------- Email Received From David Miller <davem@twiddle.net> 04/07/99 13:04 -------