Hi there,
I had no problems with my X server last night but today when I tried to load it by
startx it would not run. It is not my video card drivers because the introduction
screen loads and then the X server shuts down and says:
Fatal server error: Cannot load font 'fixed'. - or something like
You'll need to install font packages for your distribution or
reinstall of the packages you've already installed.
If you installed from source, you might try grabbing all of the
.tar.gz files from the XFree86 ftp site again and compiling all of
them and not just the first three or so. This solved
Oddly enough, I just had the same problem on a RHEL machine.
It happened after I ran ntsysv and turned off a bunch of services,
including xfs.
Try starting xfs and see if that fixes your problem.
If you're running Redhat or some derivative, see if you can run ntsysv
and scroll down to the bottom
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