Benjamin,
Make sure that xfs, your fontserver service, is running. To do this:
[root@homer RPM]# service xfs status
xfs (pid 710) is running...
[root@homer RPM]#
And if it's not running, then start it up with "service xfs start" and then try startx.
Then, if that's it, check to make sure that xfs is started at boot. You can do this
with
chkconfig, ntsysv, and probably some gui configuation utilities.
I hope that's it :-)
j
--- Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I seem to have hit a minor snag, but I have no idea how to get out it. I
> would really appreciate your help.
>
> I am using LM 7.2 with KDE 2.1.1.
>
> I tried to download Ximiam Gnome 1.4 (which allows for installation on
> LM 7.2).
>
> After downloading and configuration, I encountered a host of
> installation errors (after the install process was finished). So, I
> decided to go back to Gnome 1.2. I reinstalled the six Gnome files that
> I had to UNinstall prior to trying to install Ximiam 1.4. When doing a
>
> rpm -qa | grep gnome
>
> I see that all my old Gnome 1.2 files are there.
>
> When doing
>
> rpm -qa | grep kde
>
> I see that all my KDE 2.1.1mkd files are there.
>
> After rebuilding my rpm database (#rpm --rebuilddb) and updating my
> menus (update-menus -v), both of which were successful and rebooting, I
> logged into KDE 2.1.1 without a hitch.
>
> But something has since gone wrong, and I can't figure it out. I tried
> to remove my .Xauthority file in my home directory and allow a new
> .Xauthority to be created. Well, a new .Xauthority file was created but
> I still cannot log into X (any X gui, I have tried startx, startx KDE,
> startx Gnome, startxfce, all to no avail. Nothing seems to work). I am
> stuck forever in the console.
>
> By the way, all of the files in my home directory (ls -la | more) show
> belong to me (sher) rather than root, including .Xauthority.
>
> Below is the error message I get in the console every time I try to log
> into KDE with startx (or any other command for any other gui):
>
> BEGIN
>
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
>
> >Error: Bad length in Symbols
>
> > Output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed.
>
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the Xserver
>
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
>
> _Font TransSocket UNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>
> failed to set default font path 'Unix/:-1'
>
> Fatal server error:
>
> Could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> END
>
>
>
> Would really appreciate your help. I just don't understand enough of
> what's going on to fix this.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Benjamin
>
>
>
> --
> Sher's Russian Web
> http://www.websher.net
> Benjamin and Anna Sher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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