Bug 52939 - Xwindows will not start
Summary: Xwindows will not start
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: Xconfigurator
Version: roswell
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-31 01:16 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2008-08-01 16:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-08-31 02:06:08 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-08-31 01:16:57 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-win4lin i586)

Description of problem:
After switching to runlevel 5 my system attempts to boot into Xwindows but
fails to do so.  When I run startx from the command prompt, I get a fatal
error message saying that the default font "fixed" cannot be found.   I
installed both from graphic mode and text mode to see if any errors were
generated during the installation but I found none.  My video card is an S3
Trio 3D/2X.  I am running Version 7.1 without a problem.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Either allow the system to attempt to boot into Xwindows on its own or
type startx from the command prompt.

Actual Results:  I get an error message that says "fatal error. Default
font "fixed" cannot be found"

Expected Results:  I should have booted into either the kdm or gdm
graphical login screens.

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