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could not open default font ‘fixed’

This error usually happens due to POOR coding of the software,
and this goes with a big boo to realvnc. Just bought
the license last night. So it seems the new paths of X are
different, so we are just going to make a nice symlink:

[root@jupiter ~]# vncserver
  VNC Server Enterprise Edition E4.3.1 - built Aug 14 2007 14:54:48
  Copyright (C) 2002-2007 RealVNC Ltd.
  See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
  Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb'

  Xvnc Enterprise Edition E4.3.1 - built Aug 14 2007 14:58:37
  Copyright (C) 2002-2007 RealVNC Ltd.
  See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
  Underlying X server release 40300000, The XFree86 Project, Inc

  Sun Oct 21 19:15:01 2007
   vncext:      VNC extension running!
   vncext:      created VNC server for screen 0
   TcpListener: listening on IPv4, port 5901
   TcpListener: listening on IPv4, port 5801
  error opening security policy file
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/, removing
from list!
  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
removing from list!
  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/, removing
from list!
  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing
from list!
  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/, removing
from list!
  Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,
removing from list!

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

Do the thing down here, and poof ! it works.

ln -s /usr/share/X11 /usr/X11R6/lib
Enjoy. Waiting for feedbaaaack

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  1. same thing…..do not found

  2. do not found what?

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