On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, michael chopek wrote:
> Hi Jerald;
>
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Jerald A DeLong Jr scribed:
>
> > I am having problem getting my X server started, this is the error message I
> > am getting.
> >
> > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can`t connect : errno = 111
> > Failed to set default font path `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/
> > :unscaled,unix/:-1`
> > Fatal server error:
> > Could not open default font `fixed`
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction to fixing it.
>
> I have had this happen twice, or something very similar with Mandrake
> 7.0, both times I asked on this list for a way to fix this and both
> times I wound up reinstalling as no one including Mandrake had an
> answer.
>
> My error looked like this..
>
> "FontTransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: errno=1"
> "failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal Server
> Error: could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Axalon and others had some things to check and some suggestions such
> as..from the commandline checking the "status" of xfs
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status
>
> When it bombed for me I had the following returned...
>
> "xfs dead but subsys locked"
>
> Also upon looking in /var/log/messages as Axalon suggested...I saw
> the following..
>
> xfs: xfs startup successful
> xfs: fatal font server error
> xfs: can not establish any listening sockets
>
> It was also suggested to check the permissions on /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1
>
> this is what I got back below;
>
> [d2earth@chopek .font-unix]$ ls -l
> total 0
> srwxrwxrwx 1 xfs xfs 0 Jan 24 22:08 fs-1=
>
> Supposedly you can hard code your fontpath in the XF86Config,
> and it will work, just doesn't support true type fonts.
>
> Well I had no luck with this either and what I do not understand is...
> if xfs is dead...what difference does it make which font you use??
>
> I have not powered down my machine since the last time it happened ....as it
> seemed to crap out when it was booting back up....twice was enough for
> me.
>
> I would really like to know though, if anyone from Mandrake has any idea
> what to do if one "can not establish any listening sockets" in the
> future.
last person who i answered this for forgot when they recompiled thier
kernel to include the unix sockets
> - good luck -
>
>
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