Suddenly problems starting X

[Familien Bolding <bolding@tin.it>]

At work today I had problems restarting X.

I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx.
xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then.
Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like


unable to use/open default font fixed
errno -2

Sorry for the incomplete description but now I'm home and don't have
the error messages here.

I checked in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and found nothing like fixed
fonts.

Please reply to this address as well as debian-user.


Karsten

PS: Is there an easy and safe way to allow a user to use shutdown.


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