I've just recently upgraded to a new Athlon based system with a Matrox G450 bourd, have compiled X 4.0.2 from scratch (on my old P-100, that is, which took a *long* time). When xfs is started by '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start' the system returns an OK linet, but once that is present, all trace of it is gone from'ps' or other utilities. Consequently, I get a 'cannot open font fixed' error from the X server, and a subsequent crash. I haven't been able to solve the problem. I remade xfs, did a new make install, same thing. I went and force installed the xfs 4.0.1 RPM which fixes the problem -- although this has been known to die sporadically at times as well. For instance, upon exiting out of X, xfs is no longer there, and has to be restarted. This makes programs such as xsterm non functional, since xterm in particular dies with a library confilct. rxvt, konsole, gnome terminal etc., are not affected, so that's not that big of an issue. Still, this shouldn't be happening.
