Re: Suddenly problems starting X
On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:12:24 +0200, Familien Bolding wrote:
>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
"fixed" is just one of the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc (see
fonts.alias there) which is very important (its the default font) The
problem might be in /etc/X11/XF98Config where there is a line for every
font directory. Anyway - check /var/log/xsession-log (or something like
it) for the exact error report.
The blinking of the screen you saw when starting xdm is caused by the
X-server being restarted over and over again. (xdm automatically
restarts this X-server as soon as it stops, so a X-server bailing out
at startup causes an endless circle...)
Hope i could help at least a little bit...
>PS: Is there an easy and safe way to allow a user to use shutdown.
I have no idea, but perhaps you should post this question again in a
seperate mail. PSes might not be read if they have a completely
different topic to the mail.
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