Thanks to the folks who have responded with helpful suggestions.
Here's a little more info...
It seems that the font server is hosed somehow. This happens when X tries
to start after a fresh reboot (system boots into console mode normally,
startx is what craters). When I tried cd /etc/rc.d/init.d ; ./xfs
start the font server appeared to start ok, but the startx script then
resulted in the same crash.
I'm about to grab some lunch, then I'll be trying to figure out what is
causing the problem. As always, any helpful suggestions will be gratefully
appreciated!
THANKS!
--Bruce McCulley
Bruce McCulley wrote:
> Starting yesterday afternoon, I've been having a problem with X windows
> not starting. The onset coincided with some flakiness on the hard
> drive, that doesn't seem to be continuing but now I've got the pick up
> the pieces and put Humpty back together again.
>
> What's happening is that startx exits after the following messages:
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> fwiw, errno 111 is connection refused.
>
> I'm not especially knowledgeable about XFree86, so any help will be
> gratefully appreciated!
>
> THANKS!
>
> --Bruce McCulley
>
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