On Mon, 29 May 2000, you wrote:
> 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?
sockets are now in /root/tmp, which does in fact help a LOT.
Civileme
> 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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