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] -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
