Subject: Re: amaya-8.2nb1 fails at startup
To: Roland Illig <roland.illig@gmx.de>
From: Florence HENRY <Florence.Henry@obspm.fr>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/13/2004 11:02:40
On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Roland Illig wrote:

> serial 115:
>      it was request number 115 in this X11 session
> error_code 2:
>      BadValue. Perhaps the X11 atom for the font path was invalid.
> request_code 51:
>      SetFontPath.
> minor_code 0:
>      unused.
>
> For XFree86 it is an error if a font path is supplied where no file
> called `fonts.dir' exists. This is just one possible reason.

Thanks, it was indeed a XFree86 problem. I do have fonts.dir in each font
directory, and a simple restart of the X server solved the problem....

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Florence HENRY
florence.henry@obspm.fr