XFree86 muckup - "lost" font called 'fixed'

[Eric Dunbar]

Well, something's gone wrong with my XFree86 install!

I rebooted and my XFree86 no longer comes up but errors out. It says
"could not open default font 'fixed'".

There are a few things I have done that I figure could have triggered
this problem (I suspect #3):
1. I opened up the "font manager" that was included with the version
of Open Office that came with YDL 3.0.1. I didn't do anything with it.

2. I installed the newest version of OpenOffice available to YDL 3.

3. I tried to install GIMP 2.0 without success. I never got past step
one which was make and make install the appropriate glib version!

& Now that I notice it, I also run Webalizer 2.0.1 as a cron job and
it hasn't been updated today. When I run it from the CLUI (now) as
root it errors with "Warning: Truncating oversized referrer field" and
doesn't update the files normally found in my.url.tld/usage

Do I try to yum remove glib and then yum install glib? Or do I need to
re-install OpenOffice, default version with YDL 3.0.1?

Thanks for your help.

Eric.

PS The output on the screen is:

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Yellow Dog Linux release: 4.3.0-2.1e)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.22-1asmp ppc [ELF]
Build Date: 29 August 2003
Build Host: skyfox.terraplex.com

Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux  version 2.4.22-2g
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Oct 30 01:12:08 2004
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
Count not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

Fatal server error
could not open default font 'fixed'