The exact same thing happened to me when my machine crashed I wiped out
the /tmp directory . . .
I just re-installed (rpm -U --force)
the base X and fontsserver packages, and voila! all was fine again.
(The fontserver is X-something-fs-something.)
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, you wrote:
| Anyone here know which files i need to check when i can't loging using
| the GUI. I had a power failure and i think that some of my files may
| heve been corrupted. Thankfully my superuser can still login, but if i
| put in my password and username, the login prompt goes away as if it
| will login, then just brings me back to the prompt. I tried to create a
| new user and loging that way, but i get the same result as my already
| created user. I then changed my runlevel to 3 and tried t ologin using
| the text interface, but whe ni ran startx i got an error about xfonts
| not opening and it wouldn't load. I think i may have 2 problems now.
| Anyone know how to fixd atleast one of them?
|
| Jeff
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