On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> All,
> Is anyone out there well versed in the ways of X? I started up my
> system a little while ago, and I couldn't get X to start. I ran startx,
> and all of the usuall stuff scrolled by, the screen went black (which is
> normal), then it just kicked back to the console with an XIO error. I
> haven't made any changes to my system in about a week or so, and it was
> working fine yesterday. I ran the output to a file (attached). Any one
> have any ideas what happened??
> TIA,
> Kenny
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> (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1"
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> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
You've specified your font paths as "unix/:-1", which is not a valid
pathname. The "(**)" indicates that this is set explicitly in the
XF86Config file; "(--)" would indicate something that was probed for,
calculated, or set to a default value.
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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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