Lost for words
18 May
Just upgraded a workstation machine to Fedora 9 and was greeted with this error every time when trying to run certain applications like Firefox or OpenOffice:
BadName (named color or font does not exist)
Turns out the easy solution was to stop XFS, which I probably don’t need:
/etc/init.d/xfs stop
And stop it from starting again next time:
chkconfig –level 2345 xfs off
5 Responses for "How to fix “BadName (named color or font does not exist)” error"
Yes, I found the same error.
I found doing “yum groupremove ‘Legacy Fonts’” made it all work again.
Thanks for this …
I found the best solution for me was to simply restart xfs:
/etc/init.d/xfs restart
I looked into removing “Legacy Fonts”, but yum wanted to remove every application that used a font!
I got the same problem when updated to Fedora 9. Restarting XFS fixed the problem indeed, but I have to restart it everytime I reboot.
Does anyone knows why this happens and what would be a long term fix for it? Stopping XFS makes my X to run very slowly.
Thanks.
I was under the impression that XFS had become obsolete; I certainly haven’t noticed any adverse effects with it stopped. Perhaps something else you’ve installed is still expecting it to exist?
It might be interesting to see if a fresh install (as opposed to an upgrade) would default to using XFS, but I’m certainly not about to spend my time finding out!
Matt,
Yes, you are correct. I’ve also read elsewhere that XFS was deprecated - but stopping it made my X goes very slowly. So I logged-in a text tty, stopped it and restarted X using the Ctrl-Alt-Back space and it worked.
So eventually I uninstalled it. I don’t really use it and apparently there’s another it was been “deprecated in favor of a new fontpath.d schema”.
Thanks for your help !
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