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Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 9:31 AM
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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
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 03:54:19PM -0800, Mark Ivey wrote:
> yep, that was it. I managed to figure it out after looking at the
> sendmail logs. It would've been nice if the error message X had given me
> had been a little more to the point :)
Better error messages would always be nice ;) But
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 o
yep, that was it. I managed to figure it out after looking at the
sendmail logs. It would've been nice if the error message X had given me
had been a little more to the point :)
Thanks,
-Mark-
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:52:02AM -0800, Mark Ivey wrot
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:52:02AM -0800, 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 t
I have had xfs choke also on three different systems running 6.0 and
6.1. I can't put my finger any any one thing that causes the problem. I
have temporarily fixed it by using tcp sockets instead of unix domain
sockets. Here's what I did:
1. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config
2. Change FontPath unix/:-1
xfs is a little wacky. If it cannot look up your hostname, it may
die, sometimes silently. If your machine is disconnected from the
network and you have given it a name other than localhost.localdomain,
you have to add the new hostname to /etc/hosts as a nickname for
localhost.
If you are on
Ok, I looked into it a little more. xfs is starting up fine (i.e. 'xfs
status' says it is running). When I try to start X, it gives me the
error, crashes, and xfs is no longer running ('xfs status' says that xfs
has stopped but the lock-file still exists). If I delete the lock file,
then I can
This is probably because the font server is not running. Try starting
in (/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart).
--
Matt Galgoci
Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1`
echo $title
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Mark Ivey wrote:
> Hi,
> This morning my computer won't start X, i
