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