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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Virginia K. Wills wrote:
> Thanks to some help I did find it and downloaded it. Since Linux isn't
> recognizing my modem had to do this in my win98. Started to go back into
> linux to could get it installed, logged in as root, typed startx. It tried to
> open came back down through all the set up for my video card and monitor,
> gave the following error message:
>
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font fixed.
>
> It brought me back to the command prompt. Not sure what I did wrong nor how
> to fix it. Re-installed Redhat 6.0 thinking that would fix it but still get
> the same message.
>
> Virginia
>
It seems that Red Hat 6.0 does that sometimes -- the problem is that
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start doesn't reliably start xfs -- the X Font Server
- -- and then xfs dies. If you try doing xfs & from the command line then
try startx, that might work -- it does for me, anyway.
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