St�phane Rollandin wrote:
>
>
> 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
Stef,
This is not an uncommon problem I have had it many times. The first
thing to try is check in you /tmp directory and look for a file named
unix/:-1 or very similar. If you find one then delete it and reboot
there is a very good chance that all will return to normal.
If it doesn't or if you can't find the file you can do what I have ave
done and that is edit the /etc/XF86Config file, take a look at the
example in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 if you add the font paths shown in the
example to you X config file and comment out the line relating to the
unix-1 reference things should then work. Make sure though that the
fonts actually do reside in the stated paths otherwise it will be no-go.
If the fonts are somewhere else modify the path statements to suit. If
you do it this way it most probable that Drakfont will not function
correctly.
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