[NCLUG] x startup

[G.T. (Ted) Anderson-Newton, P.E.]

I've installed RH7.2 on two boxes.
One works nicely  but on the other one
won't initialize x.
I can't seem to get rid of 
the following messages--

Starting xfs: chmod: getting attributes 
of 'fonts.dir': No such file or directory

xfs: error while loading shared 
libraries: libXfont.so.1: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or 
directory  
                                    [failed]

And I'm left in command line mode.

fonts.dir exists in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc
and is a text file with permissions
_rw_ r_ _ r _ _

libXfont.so.1 is a link to
libXfont.so.1.3
which has permissions
- rwxr - x r - x

My guess is that the initialization script is
looking in the wrong place for these files.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Many TIA,
Ted