Re: [LI] startx not starting.

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, anjana sharma wrote:

> hi!
> i was working on X windows wihtout any problems for quite some time.
> next time when i started it shutdown and gave the following error message
> 
> -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect :Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/: -1'
> fatal server error
> could not open defaultfont 'fixed'

This means that xfs died. For some strange reason, it does this
occasionally.

To fix this, do the following:

rm -rf /tmp/.font-unix/
killall -9 xfs
/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start

Now run startx and check if things work.

Atul


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