Re: Fatal X server error.

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya fu

you need to hav xfs running...

or comment out "unix/:-1" from your /etc/X11/XF86Ccnfig file
and add some explicitly defined FontPaths 
	...
	# make sure you have the directories you list
	FontPath    "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
	...

c ya
alvin
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem with startx.  The error message says:
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" 
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> 
> Would appreciate any help.  Thanks!
>