on 27/11/01 11:55 AM, Alexander Shopov at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Bashar Asad, > I have frequently had this problem. The most common reason was that my > disk space was very low and the xfs service in my distribution was not > able to make its lockfiles and so xfs did not start up. > Please check you disk space and stale lock files. > al_shopov > > On ??, 2001-11-25 at 03:25, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Bashar Asad wrote: >> >>> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:43:45 +0300 >>> From: Bashar Asad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >>> List-Id: XFree86 Font List <fonts.XFree86.Org> >>> Subject: [Fonts]Help with fixed fonts >>> >>> Hello, >>> Am getting this error message when running startx on my debian machine am >>> using xfree86 ver 4.1.0 >>> I think the top stuff is fine except the fixed font thing...I really don't >>> know what to do >>> >>> (**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" >>> (**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events >>> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice >>> No such device. >>> (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device >>> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" >>> (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) >>> >>> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! >>> >>> Fatal server error: >>> could not open default font 'fixed' >> >> Looks to me like you don't have a running fontserver. Start up >> xfs, and it should be fine. >> >> I see people with this common problem a lot. In Red Hat Linux, >> this would be done by: "service xfs start" however I'm not sure >> what the Debian GNU/Linux syntax is for doing so. Could someone >> let me know so I can give more specific info in the future to >> Deb'ers? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> TTYL >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: >> OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, >> XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Thanks guys, I got it running, my xfs, but lacked the right fonts so I installed and reinstalled a bunch of them ;) and now its running fine
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