Dear Bashar Asad, I have frequently had this problem. The most common reason was that my disk space was very low and the xfs service in my distribution was not able to make its lockfiles and so xfs did not start up. Please check you disk space and stale lock files. al_shopov
On ��, 2001-11-25 at 03:25, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Bashar Asad wrote: > > >Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:43:45 +0300 > >From: Bashar Asad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >List-Id: XFree86 Font List <fonts.XFree86.Org> > >Subject: [Fonts]Help with fixed fonts > > > >Hello, > >Am getting this error message when running startx on my debian machine am > >using xfree86 ver 4.1.0 > >I think the top stuff is fine except the fixed font thing...I really don't > >know what to do > > > >(**) Generic Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2" > >(**) Generic Mouse: always reports core events > >(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > > No such device. > >(EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > >(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" > >(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) > > > >Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! > > > >Fatal server error: > >could not open default font 'fixed' > > Looks to me like you don't have a running fontserver. Start up > xfs, and it should be fine. > > I see people with this common problem a lot. In Red Hat Linux, > this would be done by: "service xfs start" however I'm not sure > what the Debian GNU/Linux syntax is for doing so. Could someone > let me know so I can give more specific info in the future to > Deb'ers? > > Thanks in advance. > TTYL > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: > OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, > XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 > Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 > http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris > Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Fonts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
