Gilligan,
When in /tmp search for HIDDEN FILES (ls -la /tmp), and these are ESSENTIAL:
folder .X11-unix/ containing X0 socket, and folder .FONT-unix/ containing FS-1
socket. You must have these to have your X server run when you boot. This may or
may not be your problem......
Hope it helps,
Craig
Richard -Gilligan- Uschold wrote:
> 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:
>
> -------------------
> 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
> -------------------
>
> 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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