X refuses to launch despite Xautoconfig, if I boot Gentoo 2004.2 PPC live on my original bondi blue iMac or my Titanium Powerbook. The console complaints printed appear in full at the URL but include: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! could not open default font 'fixed' --- On the iMac, I actually also saw the complaint: Parse error on line 57 of section Monitor in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf The VertRefresh keyword must be followed by a list of numbers or ranges. But that secondary complaint went away when I listed min before max for the VertRefresh line of /etc/X11/xorg.conf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Acquire Titanium Powerbook or original bondi blue iMac. 2. Md5sum, burn, verify, and boot boot Gentoo 2004.2 PPC live. 3. Try: Xautoconfig ; X & Actual Results: I've stumbled into the fix of asking for tcp font service, with the -p0 patches to /etc that I quote below followed by a manual relaunch of xfs: cd /etc/init.d ./xfs status ./xfs start --- /etc/conf.d/xfs~ 2004-07-22 12:18:36.000000000 +0000 +++ /etc/conf.d/xfs 2004-08-21 11:12:00.859465048 +0000 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ # you however want it to listen on tcp, remember to comment # "nolisten = tcp" in /etc/X11/fs/config. -XFS_PORT="-1" +XFS_PORT="7100" # If this is set to "yes", then the xfs rc-script will --- /etc/X11/fs/config~ 2004-07-22 12:18:36.000000000 +0000 +++ /etc/X11/fs/config 2004-08-21 11:12:43.111041832 +0000 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ #client-limit = 4 # no tcp, use sockets! -no-listen = tcp +# no-listen = tcp # when a font server reaches its limit, start up a new one clone-self = on --- /etc/X11/xorg.conf~ 2004-08-21 11:09:23.000000000 +0000 +++ /etc/X11/xorg.conf 2004-08-21 11:10:57.443105800 +0000 @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Section "Monitor" ModelName "Monitor Model" Option "DPMS" HorizSync 60-60 - VertRefresh 75-60 + VertRefresh 60-75 EndSection Section "Modes" Expected Results: Should the default configuration work? Are those -p0 /etc patches the right fix? Can I somehow help correct the Gentoo Xautoconfig?
Me personally, I know kernel space better than user space. A user space friend tells me, Substitute startx for X, and omit the unnecessary '-no-listen = tcp' patch ... and run xdm on top of X if you like ... but the essential trouble remains, i.e. Xautoconfig does not launch xfs and does not set XFS_PORT=7100.
> you mean the KDE/Gnome LiveCD .. > not the Minimal or Universal LiveCD ... ? Yes I mean the kde-gnome-universal-2004.2.iso of http://www.metadistribution.org/gentoo/2004.2/
Thnxs for the report. The easiest fix is to have Xautoconf configure X for fixed fonts paths instead of a fontserver. Xautoconf needs a patch to do that. If I'm not mistaken eklipse@gentoo.org is working on that. This bug is critical for 2004.3. Matt can you take a look asap?
The easiest way to 'fix' this is to have Xautoconfig output a x.org configuration configured for font paths rather than a font server. That should be a one line patch.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61152 ***
See bug # 53258 for the patch!
