"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:
>
> XFree86 Version 3.3.3.1 / X Window System
>
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:1'
I thougt the font was suppose to be "unix/:-1"
>
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
>
> The end of the messages may be telling me what's wrong, but I don't understand.
>
> Help in getting X-Windows reestablished in its full KDE glory will be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
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