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Font install gone horribly wrong -- need to restore defaults

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Friday, April 4th 2008, 1:44am

Font install gone horribly wrong -- need to restore defaults

I am totally up the creek on this one, not sure why, but I know what I did:

I installed a font (unzipped from .lzh format) by using the KDE Control Panel's "Font Installer" in both the user and administrator mode. I selected the font, clicked "okay," and thought all would be fine.

Unfortunately, whether due to a problem with the font or a problem with the KDE font installer, it has borked all attempts to start X. I'm stuck in a terminal, with a "failed to load default font: fixed" error.

I don't care about keeping the new font at all, but I desperately need to reset or reload the original fonts that were there -- or switch the default fixed point font to something that's usable. I'm happy to use emacs but I've no clue which files to start messing around with and don't know if what I change will be overwritten by a script each time. I'm using Fedora Core 8, KDE 3.5, and a 2.6.24 kernel. If you need other specs I'm happy to provide them.

PLEASE HELP. Any and all assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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Friday, April 4th 2008, 3:14am

Font issue solved

After 8 hours of frantic sleuthing, I discovered that X was looking at xorg.conf for the location of the fonts, and lo and behold, when I looked there, the only font listed was the new faulty one. So I renamed the .dir and .scale files, moved the font to a different location (essentially emptied that directory), restarted xfs, and it worked. Whew.