On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Vincent Danen wrote:
> I've had a few crashes (power failures, etc.) which I think are really
> screwing up my system. Standard MDK6.0 system, everything but the kernel
> upgraded (using 19mdk... 27mdk is no longer in the updates?). Anyways,
> this is what the X-server gives me when I do a startx or try to load
> gdm/kdm/etc.:
>
>
[snip]
> (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
[snip]
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
looks like either you didn't install or didn't start the font server.
Install XFree86-xfs, start it with the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
and everything should be ok.
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
>
> mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q < 10.66666667
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> --
> How do I go about fixing this? I can't wait for a reply right now, but
> this has happened to me twice now on this machine (and never once on the
> server machine... mind you, it has a UPS protecting it somewhat). Any
> ideas? Going to do a reinstall right now, but if this happens in the
> future I'd like to know how to fix it.
>
> Thanx.
>
>
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Or replace the "unix/:-1" with a really long list of font paths...
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