Bug#460866: can't open display

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Feb  5, 2008 at 23:59:17 +0100, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 5. Februar 2008 schrieb Julien Cristau:
> 
> > There's something weird going on in your /tmp/.X11-unix directory.  If
> > /tmp/.X11-unix/X99 already exists, but /tmp/.X99-lock doesn't, then
> > please clean up that socket and try again.
> 
> OK, this is a leftover from a previous xvfb-run session. Every failing 
> xvfb-session leaves it behind. Here's another log, created after removing the 
> socket. 
> 
[pid 31171] write(2, "Could not init font path element"..., 103) = 103
[pid 31171] write(2, "\nFatal server error:\n", 21) = 21
[pid 31171] write(2, "could not open default font \'fix"..., 35) = 35
[pid 31171] write(2, "\n", 1)           = 1
[pid 31171] unlink("/tmp/.X99-lock")    = 0
[pid 31171] munmap(0xb7cbd000, 311296)  = 0
[pid 31171] exit_group(1)               = ?

There's the likely explanation.  Is xfonts-base installed?

Cheers,
Julien