On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Toby Bluhm <tkb at midwestinstruments.com> wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >> Toby Bluhm wrote: >>> >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>>> >>>> You would think installing via yum would handle dependencies, but >>>> perhaps fonts are not managed like dependencies..... >>>> >>>> Anyway, I installed tightvnc to test out its IPv6 support. >>>> >>>> Installed ok (after I erased regular vnc). But when I tried to start it, >>>> I got 5 warnings about: >>>> >>>> Font directory '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc' not found - ignoring >>>> (then the same message for Speedo, Type1, 75dpi, and 100dpi). >>>> >>>> Then a fatel server error about: could not open default fount 'fixed' >>>> >>>> So I looked in the repos (curtesy of yumex) and did find a few 75dpi a >>>> 100dpi fonts, but there seemed to be a lot of these two. I installed a >>>> ocuple of them and tried again. Got the same errors. >>>> >>>> So how do I fix this one? >>>> >> >> But I stopped both iptables and ip6tables and the same error messages. >> >> And installing OpenOffice did not 'fix' things. Perhaps setting symlinks >> may be needed. >> >> > > I remember playing games with Matlab to get it to find it's own fonts. I > think it went something like: > > mkdir <fontdir> > cp fonts* <fontdir> > mkfontdir <fontdir> > Add <fontdir> to /etc/X11/fs/config > > Like you say, maybe just a link to /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc would do the > trick. > > Perhaps a vnc/X startup script somewhere is hardcoded? Robert, I noticed the same thing, so what I did is the following: cd /usr/X11R6/; mkdir lib; cd lib; ln -s /usr/share/X11 . Now try it. Seems like the repository from which I got TightVNC has issues in directory compatibility.... but at least I got it working. I didn't have a misc fonts directory, and my $HOME/.vnc/xtartup has: #!/bin/sh # Red Hat Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc If that still doesn't work, I'll post the /etc/init.d/vncserver script that works for me (possibly from an older install of tightvnc - 1.2.9 I believe). If there's a more elegant solution, someone please let us know! :-) -Rob