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I apologize if this is the wrong question for this list. I was told the
people here may be able to help me:
Im having a problem loading and installing X with Debian 2.1. After I
install X and use it once (and it works fine) the next time I reboot my
system will always hang at startup. The last message is "starting X font
server: xfsFontCacheInitialize hi=1048576 low=786432 bal = 70". At this
point I can ctr+alt+dlt but thats it. I cant get into another terminal
screen - it doesnt make it to the login screen. Ive reinstalled debian
twice, and the same thing has happened. Ive looked around, and all my fonts
appear to be in the right place. I can boot into single user mode, but no
matter what I do, I still get that error when booting up normally.
This is my first experience with linux, so I dont even know if like, I can
uninstall the font server, and reinstall it, or how I would even do that.
Like I said, X seems to work great the first time. But after I reboot, I
cant get in. Someone told me I didnt need a font server. I thought I read
that I did. What exactly does it do?
Any help is greatly appreciated. I really want to start using Linux and
this is frusterating :)
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