Re: XFS problems
Whoa that's weird...
2.1 is going to be getting stale fast any reason you're not using 2.2?
I haven't the faintest idea why you're getting this problem, but
thought a descriptive subject line might bring more help :)
>From the package description:
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xfs is a daemon that listens on a network port and serves X fonts to
X servers
(and thus to X clients). All X servers have the ability to serve
locally
installed fonts for themselves, but xfs makes it possible to offload
that job
from the X server, and/or have a central repository of fonts on a
networked
machine running xfs so that all the machines running X servers on a
network do
not require their own set of fonts. xfs may also be invoked by users
to, for
instance, make available X fonts in user accounts that are not
available to
the X server or to an already running system xfs.
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Should be safe to uninstall:
root@localhost# dpkg --purge xfs
To reinstall if needed:
root@localhost# apt-get install xfs
HTH,
Jon
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 08:40:07PM -0400, Ratman wrote:
: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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