"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." wrote:
> 
> Mandrake v6.0 on a K6-2/300.  I have apparently done something stupid when
> I attempted to start a program that I had just compiled.  I started the
> program with a command line in a terminal that I had just opened in
> kfm.  X-Windows appreared to be locked up and I thought that kfm had
> crashed.  So I closed X-Windows, but when I attempted to restart I got an
> error message.  I attempted to run Midnight Commaner in a terminal and got
> an error message that it couldn't open a /tmp file.  When I checked /tmp
> was gone. Mkdir /tmp corrected that problem.
> 
> Here are the messages when I run startx:
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

The font server died.  Restart it with:

        /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start

Configure it to always start with:

        chkconfig xfs on

-- 
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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