RE: [XFree86] XKeeps Crashing!,

[Vollman, Mike]

I actually am receiving the same error message about fonts along with a
message about my X server crashing.  Al smith([EMAIL PROTECTED]) told
me to edit my inittab to change the run level from 5 to 3 and reboot.
After reboot I logged in at the prompt as root and ran startx and my X
server started and ran.  However since then I have had to restart and
have not been able to start my x server again.


-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Panther Wyvern
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [XFree86] XKeeps Crashing!,

On Thursday 04 December 2003 08:59 pm, Shantanu Gupta stepped up to the 
podium, took a deep breath and intoned:
 Sir,
 In the past one week, I had to install RH9 third consecutive time
today
 because some failure in X server. I am attaching the log file, please
 reply back with possible cause of the problem.
 Thanking You, I remain
 Yours Sincerely,
 Shantanu

Your problem seems to be that it's not finding a font, as suggested at
the end 
of the log, repeated here:


Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'


I don't know why this is beyond the fonts not being installed and
haven't 
heard of similar instances.  If the fonts are not installed, a good
question 
might be how are you installing your distribution?  If it's by the
retail 
CDs, then it sounds like RH9's installation is messing up, which seems 
strange.  If you can get RH9 installed and running without X, you might
want 
to see if you can find the rpm containing the necessary fonts and
install it 
from the command line.

Panther

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[XFree86] cannot run X server

[Vollman, Mike]

When I turn on my computer I can not open up the gui
interface for redhat linux 7 due to an X server error. The screen blinks
on and off a couple of times and then drops into a diagnostic mode which does
not take care of the problem. The contents of the log /var/log/XFree86.0.log
are as follows:



Collect: Cannot write ./dfh3IOlLR008742 (sm_io_flush||sm_io_error,
uid=51, gid=51): Input/output error

Queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfhB3IOlLR008742, uid=51
permission denied



I have a lot of important files on this machine that I
cannot touch in single user mode because they are windows files held within vmware.
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.



Thank You



Mike Vollman

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