KDE error
 

Hello,{Using Mandrake 9.1}
I am sitting infront of my server right now and I have a keyboard,mouse and monitor plugged in, but when I do this at the prompt: kde start

I get this:
XFree86 Version 4.3.0
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19-37mdkenterprise i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 12 February 2004
Before reporting problems, check *link removed*
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Oct 29 11:05:09 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Using vt 7
Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.


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I tried doing xserver start before but that command is not found so xserver must start with kde. How can I fix this, thanks.

Did you install the font packages? They're called xfonts-xxxx

Check if your FontServer is running and if you have set the read permission's [fonts.alias]for all the users.

Do this #locate fonts.alias [to get the location's of fonts.alias on your system ]

Change permissions
#chmod a+r /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias

#service xfs restart

Yes that was the problem, just the font server not running. Stupid me lol. I just wanted to check for updates because I did not know how to do it via the prompt, and I guess there was no latest updates. Now a new question, I want to update PHP, I probably want to do it from KDE because it might be easier, if I use the rpm software helper installer, will that do it for me and update php? Because I really have no clue how to , im very new and running a server would like it up to date. Tried to find people to do it for me, but they were not interested. Thanks.

It wont be a problem updating PHP.. but you might have to reconfigure Apache.