On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, michael chopek wrote:
> Hi folks;
>
> I wrote Friday for the exact same thing, the XFS has died.
[..]
> Upon looking in /var/log/messages as Axalon suggested...you see the
> following..
>
> xfs: xfs startup successful
> xfs: fatal font server error
> xfs: can not establish any listening sockets
Ahh finaly log entrys from someone with the problem (anyone confirm they
have the same?)
This is pretty straight forward it can't grab the configured socket. Last
time i saw this someone left out unix sockets when they built thier
kernel.
If these are upgrades not fresh installs you should also check the
/etc/X11/fs/ direcory for a "stale" config file, same goes for the startup
script /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs.
Also check the permissions on /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1
[..]
> Any ideas Axalon...anyone..??
>
> If I reinstall again on this machine I won't bother with 7.0 Air...who
> needs to have XFS die every day or two.
You can still hard code your fontpath in the XF86Config, it just doesn't
support true type fonts..
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--Axalon
