Description of problem: TigerVNC server can not be started because of missing "fixed" font. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tigervnc-server-0.0.90-0.3.1.20090403svn3751.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F11 alpha; 2. Update it from Rawhide; 3. Install tigervnc-server; 4. Try to start it; Actual results: [ivo@ragana ~]$ vncserver You will require a password to access your desktops. Password: Verify: WARNING: The first attempt to start Xvnc failed, possibly because the vncserver script was not able to figure out an appropriate X11 font path for this system or because the font path you specified with the -fp argument was not valid. Attempting to restart Xvnc using the X Font Server (xfs) ... Could not start Xvnc. Xvnc TigerVNC 0.0.90 - built Apr 3 2009 13:15:26 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Constantin Kaplinsky Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 10600000, Wed Apr 8 10:22:52 2009 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' Xvnc TigerVNC 0.0.90 - built Apr 3 2009 13:15:26 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Constantin Kaplinsky Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Peter Astrand for Cendio AB See http://www.tigervnc.org for information on TigerVNC. Underlying X server release 10600000, Wed Apr 8 10:22:55 2009 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5901 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 [dix] Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' [ivo@ragana ~]$ Expected results: All needed fonts being found and VNC server happily running. Additional info: I tried to find a config file where that font is being set, but I failed.
Fixed in 0.0.90-0.5.20090403svn3751. Thanks for report
Problem is now recurring for me in 0.0.90-0.6.20090427svn3789.
Aha, Adam reports it's due to missing Requires. See bug 498184 for details; closing this bug again, sorry for noise.