Kyle Baker wrote:
>
> Did you just install KDE 2.1? Because when I installed its RPMs
> I encountered the exact same problem. Instead of going into X
> it would just kick me into a non-GUI login screen. Couldn't
> ever get around it so I just re-installed (I was needing to do a
> clean install of everything anyway). After re-installing and
> then slapping KDE 2.1 back in again, everything worked fine. My
> only guess is that it has something to do with the order I
> installed the various KDE RPMS?...
>
> I don't really have any solutions to your problem. Just thought
> I might shed a little more light on the situation...
>
> Kyle Baker
>
> --- Paul Pavlicko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. As of this morning my Xwindows
> > fails to
> > start with the following error.
> >
> > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
> > any clues to what might be causing this and how to fix it??
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
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My KDE 2.1 install failed also, breaking X with a "cat: broken pipe"
error. I re-installed, (getting good at that), but haven't tried 2.1
install again. I guess I'll wait for it to appear on MandrakeUpdate and
if it's an rpm packaging problem, it may be fixed by that time.
