Description of problem:

Since I did the upgrade of my system (from kernel 2.14.18-14 to 
2.14.18-24.8.0), X (I should say xfs) can not load the fonts anymore.

I get the following error message at the end of the log file XFree86.0.log:
   Fatal server error:
   could not open default font 'fixed'

In the log file messages, I get:
   Feb 17 10:51:22 mollux xfs: listening on port 7100
   Feb 17 10:51:22 mollux xfs: ignoring font path element  
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled (unreadable)
   Feb 17 10:51:22 mollux xfs: ignoring font path element 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc (unreadable)
   Feb 17 10:51:22 mollux xfs: ignoring font path element 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic (unreadable)
   Feb 17 10:51:22 mollux xfs: xfs startup succeeded

To be able to start the X server, I have commented out the line
FontPath  "unix:7100"  in the configuration file  XF86Config  and explicitely 
listed the font paths in this configuration file.  None of the RedHat tools 
(i.e. redhat-config-xfree86 in RedHat 8.0) was useful to solve the problem.

How reproducible:
We have gotten the same problem when upgrading RedHat 8.0 on other computers 
in the department (I should say IBM computers).

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do the full (network) upgrade from the original distribution of RedHat 8.0 
using RedHat tools.
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Actual results:
The X server does not start at all.  You have to work in text mode.

Expected results:
The X server should start (it uses to).

Additional info: