Comments on: How to fix “BadName (named color or font does not exist)” error

By: Rodrigo Tomita

Rodrigo Tomita — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:10:54 +0000

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 !

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:27:36 +0000

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!

By: Rodrigo Tomita

Rodrigo Tomita — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:59:11 +0000

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.

By: Nick Stoughton

Nick Stoughton — Tue, 27 May 2008 23:41:49 +0000

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!

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:31:33 +0000

Yes, I found the same error.

I found doing “yum groupremove ‘Legacy Fonts’” made it all work again.