Re: X won't start
I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). -Al - Original Message - From: David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: Re: X won't start ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). To recap my last suggestion, if you've got sshd running on the box, i'd advise attempting to run any X app remotely to see if it will fire up. That should clarify whether the problem is truly an X configuration issue, or something else entirely. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
Thanks, Llama, but unfortunately I'm not in a position (capable?) of trying that. xfs Is running (by ps). I guess it's the window manager (xdm?) that seems to be failing. -Al - Original Message - From: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 1:31 PM Subject: Re: X won't start On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). To recap my last suggestion, if you've got sshd running on the box, i'd advise attempting to run any X app remotely to see if it will fire up. That should clarify whether the problem is truly an X configuration issue, or something else entirely. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). -Al I had the same error on my RH 8 re cannot find default font fixed. As Mr Bandel said, your font named 'fixed' is missing. Re-installing XFree86-base-fonts rpm fixed that for me. Check your XFree86 logs though, when this happened to me /var/lib/xkb was gone too (I think the log actually mentioned /etc/X11/xkb/compiled which is a sym-link to /var/lib/xkb). Reinstalling the XFree86 rpm replaced that. The bad news is that this kept reoccurring every few days on my system. Never did find out why. After a new install of RH 9 failed with hardware trouble warnings I installed Mandrake 9.1 and it's been fine ever since. Sorry I didn't have time to figure out the root of the problem. Maybe 'root' was the problem! :^) IanS ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). -Al I had the same error on my RH 8 re cannot find default font fixed. As Mr Bandel said, your font named 'fixed' is missing. Re-installing XFree86-base-fonts rpm fixed that for me. Check your XFree86 logs though, when this happened to me /var/lib/xkb was gone too (I think the log actually mentioned /etc/X11/xkb/compiled which is a sym-link to /var/lib/xkb). Reinstalling the XFree86 rpm replaced that. The bad news is that this kept reoccurring every few days on my system. Never did find out why. After a new install of RH 9 failed with hardware trouble warnings I installed Mandrake 9.1 and it's been fine ever since. Sorry I didn't have time to figure out the root of the problem. Maybe 'root' was the problem! :^) IanS I had this same problem (the error, not the solution proposed above), when i had improperly restored a RH9 install from backups, and the perms/ownership of alot of stuff was horked. Check the list archives, cause i'm pretty sure that i posted my solution. This was about 3 or 4 months back (like May). -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
On 10/10/2003 10:55 AM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication error, although I am able to ping various IP addresses (from level 3). -Al I had the same error on my RH 8 re cannot find default font fixed. As Mr Bandel said, your font named 'fixed' is missing. Re-installing XFree86-base-fonts rpm fixed that for me. Check your XFree86 logs though, when this happened to me /var/lib/xkb was gone too (I think the log actually mentioned /etc/X11/xkb/compiled which is a sym-link to /var/lib/xkb). Reinstalling the XFree86 rpm replaced that. The bad news is that this kept reoccurring every few days on my system. Never did find out why. After a new install of RH 9 failed with hardware trouble warnings I installed Mandrake 9.1 and it's been fine ever since. Sorry I didn't have time to figure out the root of the problem. Maybe 'root' was the problem! :^) IanS I had this same problem (the error, not the solution proposed above), when i had improperly restored a RH9 install from backups, and the perms/ownership of alot of stuff was horked. Check the list archives, cause i'm pretty sure that i posted my solution. This was about 3 or 4 months back (like May). Hmmm... I'll look there, cuz, well, I'm having a similar issue with gdm not starting properly after an upgrade via apt-get. I've worked around the problem by switching from the graphical greeter to the standard greeter, but I'd like to go back to the graphical greeter (well, not me, per se, but my better half...) My problem seems different from Allan's in that I could execute startx from the command line and get an X session going. I don't think he's been able to do that. Regards, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
Which distro is this? I managed to cause similar horkage when i mesed up permissions/onwership on a bunch of directories. if you've got sshd running on th ebox, you can try running _any_ X app remotely, which should help to determine whether its X that is brooken, or something else. On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've somehow lost something which causes X not to start when I boot (from HD or from Boot Floppy). After all the normal boot messages, apparently X tries to start, but I get only the quick CL prompt, and then X appears to try to start again, then the prompt, over and over. Booting into linux 3 allows me to se in /var/log/XFree86.0.log the following: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' I've reloaded X from the install CD's, to no avail. Can anyone give me any aid? Thanks, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
On 10/9/2003 2:25 PM, I believe that Allan Rabenau wrote: I've somehow lost something which causes X not to start when I boot (from HD or from Boot Floppy). After all the normal boot messages, apparently X tries to start, but I get only the quick CL prompt, and then X appears to try to start again, then the prompt, over and over. Booting into linux 3 allows me to se in /var/log/XFree86.0.log the following: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' I've reloaded X from the install CD's, to no avail. Can anyone give me any aid? Sounds like the XFS daemon isn't running. What's the output of # /sbin/service xfs status as root or $ ps -ax|grep xfs as an ordinary user Can you start X as a user from runlevel 3? Regards, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
I'm running RH9; ps ax|grep shows xfs running ans does /sbin/service xfs status. This is after I log in at run level 3 and operate CLI. -Al - Original Message - From: Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:21 PM Subject: Re: X won't start On 10/9/2003 2:25 PM, I believe that Allan Rabenau wrote: I've somehow lost something which causes X not to start when I boot (from HD or from Boot Floppy). After all the normal boot messages, apparently X tries to start, but I get only the quick CL prompt, and then X appears to try to start again, then the prompt, over and over. Booting into linux 3 allows me to se in /var/log/XFree86.0.log the following: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' I've reloaded X from the install CD's, to no avail. Can anyone give me any aid? Sounds like the XFS daemon isn't running. What's the output of # /sbin/service xfs status as root or $ ps -ax|grep xfs as an ordinary user Can you start X as a user from runlevel 3? Regards, Tim ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: X won't start
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 19:25:11 +0100 Allan Rabenau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've somehow lost something which causes X not to start when I boot (from HD or from Boot Floppy). After all the normal boot messages, apparently X tries to start, but I get only the quick CL prompt, and then X appears to try to start again, then the prompt, over and over. Booting into linux 3 allows me to se in /var/log/XFree86.0.log the following: Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' Yep, here's the problem. X is looking for a font named 'fixed'. You need to regenerate your font directory. Go into each font directory and run mkfontdir. Then try to restart X. I've reloaded X from the install CD's, to no avail. Can anyone give me any aid? Thanks, Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
