I'm way, way behind reading this, but a few quick notes:
1. When this happens it usually means that /tmp got trashed.
2. Yes, it's a bug in Mandrake that permanent files are in /tmp.
That's wrong, wrong, wrong.
Anybody know if it's fixed in 7.1?
3. Usually just re-installing the base XFree package and the xfs package
fixes it, but you seem to have done this and it didn't help.
4. Setting the font-path explicitly will work around the problem, but
it shouldn't be necessary; something else is wrong.
5. The path "unix/:-1 tells it to talk to the font-server process rather
than to a directory on the disk.
Shelby Brumelle wrote:
>
> giancarlo wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Suddently my XWindowns stopped to work. When I do startx I recive the
> > follow message:
> >
> > -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
>
> The problem might be in your /etc/X11/XF86Config file and/or your font
> server. Try replacing "FontPath unix/:-1" with an explicit list of fonts
> such as the following:
>
> #### Excerpt from /etc/X11/XF86Config ######
> # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
> # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
> # the X server to render fonts.
>
> # FontPath "unix/:-1"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
> FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
> #######
>
> Shelby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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