Hi, Didn't get an answer on the newbie list so I thought I'd try expert. BTW, the installation (Mandrake 8) had been working for several months before this started to happen. -----Original Message----- From: Justin Kao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, August 02, 2001 12:20 AM Subject: [newbie] mysterious disappearing fonts >Many of my fonts stopped working recently, when I restarted xfs this was >what /var/log/message said: >------------------------------------- >Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: Re-reading config file >Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: ignoring font path element >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled (unreadable) >Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba xfs: xfs -USR1 succeeded >Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: ignoring font path element >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (unreadable) >Aug 1 23:47:32 marimba Font Server[1094]: ignoring font path element >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/pcf_drakfont:unscaled (unreadable) >-------------------------------------- > >What's it mean, and how do I fix? I looked in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts >directory and it looked like everything was there (as far as I could tell, >which is not all that far) > > >Thanks for your help, >Justin > > >
