I had the same problem when I made a booboo that changed my fontpath>
What I did was to run ttmkfdir on all the font paths to and restart xfs.
As I rember, its like this:
cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/
and ttmkfdir fonts.dir on each subdirectory
joel
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 9:31 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X won't start due to font error
Yes..........
the problem is that that error can be a hundred different
things...............
I did this, startx &> log.txt then look at log.txt
look at the last thing it tried to open to get a clue, then work from
there
just out of interest, my error was the permission on that dir in /tmp
.....'unix/:-1' , dont ask me how it would change, freak of
computing,
me stuffing around, someone else stuffing around .....who knows, I
deleted
it and X replaced it with correct perms
See Gordons recent post on using Strace as well, however I am not sure
what
it does different to above, my suggestion can also be killed off by
looking
through the correct logfile on the system, where ever its hidden (bit of
sarcasm)
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On 2/12/99 at 8:52 Mark Ivey wrote:
>Hi,
>This morning my computer won't start X, instead it just gives me the
error
>below. I'm running RH6.0, pretty much just a stock install, and I
don't
>recall doing anything recently that would have caused this. Has anyone
>had this happen before?
>
>_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
>Fatal server error:
>could not open default font 'fixed'
Regards
Greg W
IT Consultant Sydney Australia
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