Re: What the hell happened to X on Monday?

[Keith Harbaugh <harbaugh@math.georgetown.edu>]

On Tue, 1999-11-09 at 23:18:03 -0600, Erick Kinnee wrote:
> I seem to have lost the 'fixed' font or whatever it's aliased to. X no
> longer starts for me, and I have heard reports from other users of this.
> Anybody got an idea?
> 

I've had no luck with X under potato: see post late on 1999-11-06,
Subject: Cannot chown /dev/pts/0 to 0:0 ...

What happens when you just try xinit
(assuming you've gotten xdm out of the way, with /etc/init.d/xdm stop
or otherwise)?

Keith