I have ppp link.so the dns server cannot be contacted..!!
I blanked out all the lines in the /etc/resolv.cof and then rebooted..no
luck...any ideas.??
Thx.,
Arni
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From: Yoink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 11:26 AM
Subject: Re: xfs travails..
> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:
> > For some reason(screwing up the firewall settings) I rebooted my machine
and
> > as it rebooted it stoppped when it tried to start the xfs service...I
hit a
> > Ctrl-D and it continued...I did a startx and it gave the error::
> >
> > ..nothing would budge it...I logged in..and then did a
> > Xconfigurator..which detected everything well..but in the last step just
> > when it s about to exit freezes..showing up the blue screen and staying
> > there..funny !!
> >
> > BTW the error that xfs showed me was
> > "could not connect to server...fatal error blah blah..failed to set
default
> > font path 'unix/:-1'
> >
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
> > I then read some sites with the error I got
> > and commented teh line
> >
> > # FontPath "unix/:-1" in the config file...
> >
> > Now startx works but again on reboot xfs does not....
> >
> > what is going on here..??? any help in understanding the above situation
is
> > appreciated.
>
> Is your DNS broken because of the firewall changes? Check that out. Make
sure
> "nslookup localhost" returns a nice quick answer too....
>
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