Please do a:
rpm -qa|grep kde
rpm -qa|grep qt
And put the results into the message. I am wondering what versions you have.
Also, are you running Cooker or 7.2?
-Chris
On Monday 15 January 2001 11:54, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I find that EVERY time I try to use knode, it royally screws up KDE. I can
> set it up fine, add a news server, etc, and I can download message headers
> OK but the moment I try to view a message, KDE is wrecked and only a reboot
> seems to get it back. I cannot start ANY KDE apps after this. Konsole,
> kap, etc, etc...nothing KDE-related will work. Trying to do so produces
> error messages about the DCOP server not finding any useable fonts in
> .xsession-errors.
>
> What I see as I start the reboot is a message indicating that a "could not
> find default font 'fixed' " and that it couldn't find any usable fonts.
>
> Of course this is bullcrap as all the fonts on my system are usable - it's
> just that something about knode wrecks everything, having a problem with
> the perfectly fine fonts on my system.
>
> Here is my chkfontpath:
> Current directories in font path:
> 1: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled
> 2: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled
> 3: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
> 4: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled
> 5: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo
> 6: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/mdk
> 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont
> 8: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled
> 9: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/msttfonts
> 10: /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> 11: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western
> 12: /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives
>
> ALL of these paths contain valid, working fonts. ALL of them.
> I fear messing with knode any more since everything I have tried to get it
> configured to, hopefully, avoid this problem fails and I end up rebooting.
>
> What is this default 'fixed' font that knode can't live without? Why is it
> that magically, all the other fonts become invisable to KDE after using
> knode?
