I am running Mandrake 7.1 and all was fine but now I have a boot problem:

Mandrake boots to the text login and then (instead of proceeding to the
graphic login) it stops for a few seconds and then seems to re-start the
boot process to the same point.

If I then log in (either as root or user) and type startx, it runds some
lines and then stops with the following message:

_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
 failed to set default font path 'unix/: -1'
Fatal Server error:
 could not open default font 'fixed"
x connector to : 0 : 0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

If I do Ctrl Alt Del and when powered down, do a hard reboot, the same thing
happens.

The only thing I can think that I did when I was last in Mandrake was that I
installed Staroffice from the 7.0 distribution (I am now running 7.1).
There also was a thunderstorm yesterday while in Linux.

What should I do?  This is a Newbie to Linux.

Thanks.

Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user  183185


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