At 10:05 17/08/01, you wrote: >As root type at the console: > >service xfs start > > >On Friday 17 August 2001 02:54 am, you wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > > > ... after an unclean reboot, my X Font Server seems somehow broken and I > > can't start X anymore: > > > > startx gives me the following error: (see full log at the end of this > > mail): > > > > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 > > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' thanks for your answer unfortunately this doesn't help. after starting xfs, i still get the very same error when doing startx. here are a few more details about my problem: when booting linux, the X font server does start (I can see the green mark in Aurora). but on exiting linux, the X font server shutdown fails (red cross in Aurora). also, when running Xconfigurator, I can see that xfs is started again: but Xconfigurator is unable to test any configuration and issues an error saying something goes wrong somewhere (I'm afraid it is not much more accurate than this, but i can fetch the exact message if it helps) maybe I would have too reinstall something, but what ? are they config files that I should check/fix ? as I said previously, this arised after a hard reboot, so my file system may be damaged somehow (I don't know much about this issue: any explanation would be appreciated) Stef
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