Which distro is this?  I managed to cause similar horkage when i mesed up
permissions/onwership on a bunch of directories.  if you've got sshd
running on th ebox, you can try running _any_ X app remotely, which should
help to determine whether its X that is brooken, or something else.

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote:

> I've somehow lost something which causes X not to start when I boot (from HD or from 
> Boot Floppy).  After all the normal boot messages, apparently X tries to start, but 
> I get only the quick CL prompt, and then X appears to try to start again, then the 
> prompt, over and over.  Booting into linux 3 allows me to se in 
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log the following:
>     Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list
>     Fatal server error:
>     Could not open default font 'fixed'
> I've reloaded X from the install CD's, to no avail.  Can anyone give me any aid?
> Thanks,
> Al
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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