On Monday 10 September 2001 09:26 pm, Sheldon E. Newhouse wrote: > Hello, > I'm hoping that there is someone who can help. I sent this message > several times and got some suggestions which did not work. > > After a system crash I lost the capability to start X. > > I get the error messages > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' > could not open default font 'fixed' > > I know that X can run because in the boot sequence it runs the graphical > boot screen. There must be some file somewhere that needs to be adjusted > or removed. It won't load X as root or any user. I even reinstalled the > X packages to no avail. > > Next step is to just reinstall the whole damn thing. > > Anyone have any ideas about what and where to fix the font path > 'unix/:-1' ? > > TIA, > -sen One of the things you can check is if your /tmp or root partition is (practically) full. Make some space or clean up /tmp if so. Here's a link with a big (troubleshooting) section on this topic: http://feenix.burgiss.net/xstuff/xfs.html talking about checking links and logs for clues and such with some good suggestions. Good luck, -s
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