On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about, Re: Cannot start Xwindows:
> > > Cannot connect: errno = 111
> > > Failed to set default font path `unix/:-1`
> > > Fatal server error
> > > Could not open default font `fixed`
> > >
> > I rather think "fixed" is a definition in the program itself as i cant
> find
> > any referance to fixed when greping tho, files concerning X, matbe
> Lawson
> > knows. He is more of an X-files man than i.
> > Scully!!!.
>
> Who?? I think fixed is an attribute of some fonts, which you can see
> listed in the fonts.dir file for each directory in font path, or, if you
> can get X up, with xlsfonts |grep fixed. It is possible - at least with
> X 3.3.1 - to run a minimal X server with only
> /usr/X11/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ in the font path. You may not like how it
> looks, but ...
It was meant as a joke, as in X-Files on the telly.....
As to what resides in /var/lock/* all pid lock files, so you should have
xfs in there.
ls -al /var/lock/subsys/xfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 12 14:23 xfs
Why not do;
ps ax | grep -v grep | grep xfs
That will show if xfs is running.
>
> If you get comletely frustrated with xfs, you can edit XF86Config, rip
But surly just starting xfs should do the trick, at the very least if it
wont start do;
strace -o pipo xfs
the file pipo will hold some pointers albe the contents hard to interpret.
> unix/:-1
>
> out of the FontPath, and put some real font directries in there. Be
> sure to include misc.
I dont know if thats such a good idea, but why not try, a beter idea is to
find the reason why it started, but that can cause problems.
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Regards Richard
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Merry Xmas.
