Re: can't start x anymore

[Steve Waterman <steve@yurmail.com>]

Without more detail, it sounds like the same general problem I had.  What I 
found was that the file ~./xinitrc was empty.  So I added 'startkde' and no 
problems since.


On 15 September 2002 03:09 pm, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> I'm not sure what it caused but I'm now unable to start x.
> startx fails with following error messages:
>
> ...
>
> The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> > Error:            bad length in Symbols
> >                   Output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed
>
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
> Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
>
> waiting for X server to shut down
>
>
> I appreciate any help!
>
> Christian Schoenebeck
>
> (plese cc me)