Hi, it seems that your x font server is not running, run the xfs in background, hope this will solve your problem,
regards, Sharad. --- Nick Sequino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > This is a Red Hat 8.0 standalone PC ... I was trying > to install Oracle 9i > Release 2 on Linux and I unfortunately followed 2 or > 3 different sets of > directions for establishing the Oracle user account > and dba account. > > Regardless, I can no longer start in runlevel 5 gui > mode now ... I don't > want to reinstall Red Hat yet again, and lose the > files I've just downloaded > plus many other valuable files just because of this > damned problem ... this > is twice now ... > > Can you help? > > The only clues I have are from the > /var/log/XFree86.0.log file, which ends > with the following: > > "Could not init front path element unix/:7100, > removing from list!" > > And then when I try to restart I always get: "could > not open default font > 'fixed'. > > The very last thing I was doing was trying to sign > in as the oracle user. I > had just written a new .bash_profile file, this time > in /opt/oracle. > For the previous two days I was using another > .bash_profile file, in > /usr/oracle. I had just blown away that /usr/oracle > directory when this > problem started. > > It was looking for my $ORACLE_HOME location, which > had been /usr/oracle, but > I'd just switched it to /opt/oracle and moved over > some files to there. > When I restarted it came back with some problem with > the > /usr/oracle/.gconf-test-locking-file and not being > able to locate it. > > I created that file brute-force style with cat > > thatfilename ... and then > got this cannot start X problem. > > Please answer. > Please try to help. I'm on the same PC, on the > Windows XP side sending this > to you. (I set it up with a dual boot with grub.) > > Please answer. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > XFree86 mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 ________________________________________________________________________ Send free SMS using the Yahoo! Messenger. Go to http://in.mobile.yahoo.com/new/pc/ _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
