gdm will not start after tar restore of disk

[Jules Colding <jules tdcadsl dk>]

Hi,

The short story is that my disk with /var and /tmp crashed hard. 
Fortunately I had the time to make a tar archive of both directories. 
The problem is that gdm won't start after having replaced the disk and 
restored /tmp and /var. Everything was working perfectly before the 
disk crash. Any idea what the problem and cure is ?


The version of gdm is: 
	gdm-2.2.3.1-22


The content of "/var/log/gdm/:0.log" is:

*** Start of cat ***

XFree86 Version 4.2.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.2.0-8) / X Window System
(protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600)
Release Date: 23 January 2002
        If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
        newer than the above date, look for a newer version before
        reporting problems.  (See http://www.XFree86.Org/)
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.17-0.13smp i686 [ELF]
Build Host: daffy.perf.redhat.com

Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sat Aug 10 21:32:51 2002
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

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

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to xfree86 xfree86 org 

*** End of cat ***

Invoking startx gives the same output except for:

XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
      after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

which is appended to the above output.


I can see that gdm complains about some "fixed" font. I have

"/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/75dpi/fixedgr.pcf.gz"

but I don't know if that is the one gdm is complaining about..


Thanks in advance ! 
  jules