Now I got at the root of that problem; and it is indeed bizarre: somewhat/something(*) must have done a "new" copy of the XFree86- "Config-4" file(**), where there was the single line _not_ commented out which is there by _default_, namely the valid line
FontPath 'unix/:-1' (**) I quote from mem; Lawson's hint made me search a bit in this direction and in the docs. Indeed, the queer logic in the pertinent "man" has it that the - correct and meaningful - default behaviour for looking at the usual places for font and other files (indicated precisely there, in the "man") with this config-file, is set out of play if the default format of this very config-file is used. Got it ? (Now tell a Linux/Unix newbie that something like "unix:/-1" is sheer nonsense when s/he sees it in the highly original and sacrosanct default version of a configuration file.) // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-10-09 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net (*) Bizarrery is and no-one had done a trial for a re-installation or change of the X server at that install (on an exchangeable HD), before a respective (config-4-)".old" and a (")new(") one were created -- and BOTH of them have that ominous line _un_commented. There should have been just a very first, well-working config-4-file from the very first, and at the time immediately successful, install, as the back-up "old" file, because there was one single and uninterrupted/unrepeated attempt to re-install up the X server on Oct.28th: the date when it suddenly striked to succeed with "startx" (after impeccable behaviour all the time before). AND - I almost forgot - there was indeed a nearly 600 M(!)B large "core.nnnn" file somewhere on that HD's system ... only that, as far as I could remember, THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY program crash I _remember_ of with that system in the time preceding the sudden strike of the X server. And I had run "du" tediously with all the total HD without getting aware or attent of the monster (Ok., the human eye is unreliable; better do not believe what you see onscreen.) -hc All answers questioned here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
