I'm using Mandrake 7.0, installed in April, 2000
I have NOT recently cleaned out /tmp. There is nothing in there that seems
related to X. What is supposed to be in there?
First, I tried to start xfs, (in /usr/X11R6/bin) it started and appeared in
ps. I did startx again, and the same failure as before.
I looked around at what run levels really mean, (I'm currently starting in 3,
as 5 crashes) I discovered the /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs script, which is run
automatically in run level 3 (and others). I played around with this script a
bit and here is what I found:
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98 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs status
xfs is stopped
99 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs start
Starting X Font Server: [ OK ]
100 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs status
xfs dead but subsys locked
101 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs stop
Shutting down X Font Server: [FAILED]
102 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs status
xfs is stopped
103 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs restart
Restarting X Font Server. _FontTransSocketINETCreateListener: Unable to get
service for -1
_FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for tcp
_FontTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.font-unix) failed, errno = 28
_FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
[FAILED]
104 /etc/rc.d/init.d root# ./xfs status
xfs dead but subsys locked
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Gilligan
Craig Woods wrote:
> Yes, most likely X font not running but why??? I got in on this thread
> late but what version of LMK are you running? Versions down from 7.1 keep
> _essential_ X server files in the tmp directory ( yes, /tmp). Have you, by
> any chance, cleaned /tmp out lately?
>
> Craig
>
> Tom Massey wrote:
>
> > Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote:
> > > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> > > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> > > the full server output, not just the last messages
> > >
> > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> > > -----------------
> >
> > This looks like your X font server isn't running I think. Try running it
> > with 'xfs' as root and see what happens.
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