Re: [LI] startx not starting.

["anjana sharma" <anjanas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanx atul
i tried the command and it worked
only with a slight modification

anjana
----- Original Message -----
From: Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [LI] startx not starting.


> 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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