Submitted 09-Aug-00 by Joseph Jenkins:
> I am having some problems with X-windows, I just did a clean install and
> went to 7.1, now whenever my machine starts up it tries to run X and then
> dies. I didn't have this problem with 7.0, that installed and everything
> ran fine. I compared all of the setting for x-windows and they seem to be
> the same, between the installs. Is there I can get more logging when I try
> to start X-Windows? The only log that I am looking in is /var/log/messages,
> is there another one that I should be looking in to see if there are
> messages?
Try this: from the command line, do startx > x.errors (if you're running
XF4, it creates its own error log that you should also include). I'd almost
be willing to bet that it's a failed font server (the single most common
reason for working X installs to suddenly die). Installation of any
software that provides its own fonts, or any font package has the ability to
make xfs die at startup (and it doesn't always show in the logs). The error
message you will get when the font server is dead is something to the effect
of "Unable to open default font: fixed"
If this is not the problem, and you have a copy of the /etc/X11/XF86Config
from the old install, you might want to try using that instead (backup the
one you currently use).
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