Sheez all these complex answers to a simple problem...
Type
service xfs restart
THEN try
startx
-JMS
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:59 PM
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Subject: [newbie] can't startx
Hi all,
I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing
the startx command as Root from console, it returns the following:
Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!
Fatal Server Error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
Can someone help me fix this,
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:58 pm, you wrote:
Hi all,
I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing
the startx command as Root from console, it returns the following:
Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!
Fatal Server Error:
could not open
Running Xconfigurator worked... but why did I have this problem in
the first place? And how would I avoid it in the future?
Thanx again,
E
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 5:58 pm, you wrote:
Hi all,
I suddenly can't get x up and running on my LM8 box. After issuing
the startx command as
unix/:-1 is how Xserver connects to xfs, the X font-server.
Going by the message you got, when xfs tried to upload its fonts to your
X-server, some files or folders containing fonts were missing. Running
Xconfigurator may have updated the configuration file for xfs (the file is
