FontsServer Error Message

[Chen Yingjie]

Yesterday, we got a FontServer error form /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.
The message is below.

Sep 25 17:27:09 ih0k10 FontServer[8876]: Warning: Bad font path element: "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_korean/75dpi/"
Sep 25 17:27:09 ih0k10 FontServer[8876]: Warning: Bad font path element: "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_chinese_s/75dpi/"
Sep 25 17:27:09 ih0k10 FontServer[8876]: Warning: Bad font path element: "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/hp_chinese_t/75dpi/"

We never use FontServer in our HP9000 Server(K220), and our clients doesnot use korean, chinese in their PC.

Could you please inform me why?
[Our clients use Reflection in their PC]

Thank You and Best Regards.

Chen

[RikTytgat]

Hi,

This error is produced when the fs process (FontServer) is being started.

It means that:
1. the path does not exist
2. there is no fonts.dir and fonts.alias file in that directory

If you want to get rid of the entries in syslog, do one of the following:
1. If you need the fontserver to be running and the directories exist, use the command mkfontdir(1) to create the fonts.* files. If the font directories do not exist, remove them from the font server configurqtion file /etc/X11/fs/config.

2. If you do not require the fontserver, set the variable RUN_X_FONT_SERVER to 0 in the file /etc/rc.config.d/xfs to prevent the startup of the font server.

Hope this helps,
Rik.