Update: This penguin xfs server CRASH

[Lincoln Peters]

I found an article that said that sometimes xfs would crash if it was 
talking to X on port -1, rather than on port 7100 (what the heck is port -1, 
anyway?).  I think that the workstation is set up to use port 7100, but I 
did notice that xfs was not listening to TCP ports "for security reasons".  
I turned listening on TCP ports back on so that when I get to look at it on 
Monday, I can see if that makes it work correctly.

The length of the catalogue probably is due to the fact that I installed 
AbiWord, Gnumeric, KOffice, and every other decent open-source productivity 
application that I could fit on a 3GB hard drive.  I like to be thourogh.

Do you know of any other programs that require unscaled fonts?  The same 
kind of crash happened when I ran Red Carpet (the Ximian update agent); xfs 
dropped dead just like when I ran Netscape.

I would be inclined to use a different web browser anyway, such as 
Konqueror, but Netscape is the only web browser that I could expect most 
people to recognize in a 'Programs' menu.  And on a computer with 64MB of 
RAM, Mozilla is no better than Netscape (excpet that it has fewer memory 
leaks and won't crash as quickly).


>From: "Mark Street, D.C." <jet at sonic.net>
>Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>To: talk at nblug.org
>Subject: Re: Update: This penguin xfs server CRASH
>Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:10:21 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Do a search for xfs server crash netscape fonts on google.
>
>I have had the same thing happen with RH 6.2 sometime back.
>
>Netscape requires unscaled fonts, and if they are not found in the font
>path it crashes the X server and xfs.  Which is why the order of the fonts
>in the catalogue is important.
>
>50 lines long??  What a catalogue of fonts!
>
>On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Lincoln Peters wrote:
>
> > The catalogue is over 50 lines long, and it looks like your example.  
>There
> > were no glaring problems with it.
> >
> > And yes, xfs always starts up before X, from the entry in the /etc/rc.d
> > directory.  I can see xfs starting up when I start up the workstation.
> > Problem is that xfs dropped dead while X was running.
> >
> >
> > >From: Mark Street <jet at sonic.net>
> > >Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
> > >To: talk at nblug.org
> > >Subject: Re: Update: This penguin xfs server CRASH
> > >Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:44:21 -0700
> > >
> > >The dreaded xfs problem..
> > >in
> > >/etc/X11/fs/config
> > >or
> > >/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config
> > >
> > >A catalogue on one of my servers looks sorta like this...the order is 
>very
> > >important..
> > >
> > >catalogue = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,
> > >         /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1,
> > >         /usr/local/share/ttfonts,
> > >         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi,
> > >         /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts
> > >
> > >Make sure your font server starts before your X-server.
> > >
> > >
> > >At 07:29 PM 10/11/2001 -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > >>Something else has come up:
> > >>If I run a large program, such as Netscape, the workstation freezes
> > >>up.  At first, I thought it had just run out out of memory and 
>crashed,
> > >>but one time that it happened, I was able to SSH into the workstation, 
>and
> > >>discovered that xfs had dropped dead.  But I couldn't find out
> > >>why.  Anyone know how I can find out?
> > >
> >
> >
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